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I'm sorry, Anon, but there's no passive sentence here! No. 1 uses the simple present (active), and no. 2 the present progressive (active). I was taught that no.2 is an appropriate ending for an informal letter.

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect...

The present tenses (present (simple) and present progressive) can express future time in English, not just the will form. The idiom going to also expresses future time. She the television, I'll pay him, and not a minute sooner. (completion of a task) CJ

Yoplain wrote: Thanks for the links. I've just skimmed through those pages. So now I guess : 1.My internet hasn't been working since this morning. - correct 2.My internet hasn't been working from this morning. - wrong 3.My internet doesn't work since this morning. - ? ...

Hly2004 wrote: I don't know wether it is a rule or not. It's not. It's a matter of usage and style. Hly2004 wrote: for example: "He nodded excitedly" and "He nodded in excitement" ,the latter sounds much better for me.and the same feeling exits ,For example: My point is the...

Hello guys I googled on the uses of "I study Japanese" and "I'm/am studying Japanese". Now I study Japanese. 125 I study Japanese now. 7 Now I'm/am studying Japanese. 311 I'm/am studying Japanese now. 136 In the case of the verb being "study", users of present progressive structure...

Paco: By the way I have a feeling that English 'now' (in the linguistic sense, not in the physical sense) is not instantaneous, but it seems to occupy some span in the time that flows from the past to the future. Otherwise I cannot understand the usage of the present progressive tense. JTT:...