Had and been are both helping verbs. Helping verbs must help action verbs. In this sentence, had and been are helping the present participle making , which is an action verb. Because making is a present participle, it must have helping verbs to

Let the curly brackets { } mean "a form of". Thus, {be} means "a form of be"; that is, {be} means any of be, being, been, is, are, am, was, were. -ing represents the present participle form of a verb, e.g., being, having,

Goodman: I didn’t not change the content of your post No, you did. You said that I had said "I stopped know it". I've never written so. I wrote "I stopped know ing it". If you say “I forgot I have a 10 o’clock

Google gives 213 instances of "I've been knowing it". Not much, but it counts. A search string like "been knowing" gives 71000 instances, which is absolutely considerable. People keep treating the verb "to know"

One of explanations could be a confusion between the "progressive" tenses. For example, the verb "to know" indeed can not be used in ONE of the progressive tenses, known also as "Continuous", ex.: "I'm

Hi, there! Here are my doubts. Could you help me, please? - He (write) a composition since lunch time . In this kind of sentence I could use e.g. the * Present Perfect Progressive : - He has been writting a composition since lunch time. In this

Hi, 1. Why does it have to be 'prior to the main narrative time frame' here? Can it be 'past the main narrative time frame'? The future perfect progressive verb will have been listening suggests action that will begin in the

Hi, 1. Why does it have to be 'prior to the main narrative time frame' here? Can it be 'past the main narrative time frame'? The future perfect progressive verb will have been listening suggests action that will begin in the

Explain why the verb “To Be” is not a non-progressive verb? It can be used in progressive tenses -- although this is not common. ( The baby is being difficult this morning. ) I know the simple present never talks about the present ... You have

Hi everyone, I have a few grammar questions and I don't know how to answer them: Explain why the verb “To Be” is not a non-progressive verb? I know the simple present never talks about the present but what can be an exception to this rule? Why