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Goodman:I didn’t not change the content of your postNo, you did. You said that I had said "I stopped know it". I've never written so. I wrote "I stopped knowing it". If you say “I forgot I have a 10 o’clock meeting” Can you equate this to “I don’t know I have a meeting at...

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" as a normally and logically durative verb, which it...

Hi,The original poster, beta_teacher, wrote:in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a walk. I had ttrouble keeping up with him because __ (walk) so fast. which tense shoul be used? Past progressive or Past Perfect ProgressiveI have the similar problem in that I think a past perfect...

Of the two, past progressive is the only one that seems idiomatic to my ear, but present is fine as well. In fact, present tense was the first that came to mind for me, i.e., he's a 'fast walker'. And the simple past is also fine.CJ

Hi in the following sentence : Bob and I went for a walk. I had ttrouble keeping up with him because ______ (walk) so fast. which tense shoul be used? Past progressive because he was walking so fastor Past Perfect Progressive because he had been walking so fastOf these two choices, only the...

Goodman,I understand the use of thoses tenses in English, however, what I would like to discuss here is the possibility of a different interpretation, I mean, Past Perfect Progressive is used to talk about a longer action which had continued up to the past moment we were mentioning, while the...

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...

Here are some Present - Past pairs:Simple present - Simple past (Future of the Past -- (with would)-- is also called "Conditional".)(Progressive is also called Continuous.) Caution: Not all discussions of tense use the same names for the tenses. CJ

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 knowing it". But it looks pretty OK in another...

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 case since is a starting point and the verb tense...