can someone help me with this: I have to call my friend. in Present progressive: I am having to call my friend (?) in past progressive: I was having to call my friend (sounds somewhat odd) in present perfect progressive: no idea. Thanks for your help. Rubina

I am trying to figure out when to use perfect progressive and passive when expanding a verb and putting it into a tree diagram. When do you use each of them? In the sentence "he is being recommended for the award" the answer is present progressive passive of recomend. Why do we state passive...

Hi, I was told that a present or past progressive tense like "is sleeping" or "was sleeping" denotes a temporary action or activity and the present perfect or past perfect progressive is used to indicate duration. I don't understand why a present progressive is one that denotes...

Hi everybody, Why do all the Grammar books use the expressions "simple present" and "simple past", although all the other tenses start with the tense-marker and add the aspect-marker then: present progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, past progressive, past perfect...

I'm not questioning about 'Present Perfect VS Present Perfect Progressive'. Please, let me know the difference of 'Present Progressive and Present Perfect Progressive'. For example, She is eating dinner for one hour. / She has been eating dinner for one hour. It is raining outside...

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 Progressive Tense 9: Simple Future Tense 10: Future...

Hello, I really need your help with English grammar. I want to become an au pair in England and need to write a letter to my potential hostfamily. I would like to tell them that I`m taking a training course at college to become an educator and have no idea how to write it. Do I have to write "I´ve been...

I have some problems with this parragraph: ( the verb has to be in Present Progressive or Present Perfect Progressive) Clouse........(continue).............his journeys since making the record book, and has not only visited every country in the world, but some two or three times. Now he is focusing on...

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past...

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past simple 2. The shop on the corner is open every Sunday. Past simple 3. I wrote a letter...