Hello. I have read in an english grammar that: "We use will for instant decisions about the immediate future: What are you doing after the lesson? " and that "The present progressive is most used for arrangements in the near future,

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"Are you planning..." and "Are you staying..." are the present progressive tenses.  Unless you mean to ask if the person is currently, actively making a plan to stay awake, or currently, actively staying awake, that's not

Thanks for confirming what I got right, and what I got wrong, appreciated :). I'll try the answers so, but just to let you bear in mind, when it comes to tenses, I have to choose between the following options: Present Perfect Present Simple

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,

Hi everybody, I'm a teacher of English at a German Grammar School and after 12 years of experience I'm still wondering about the following puzzle: Why do all the Grammar books stick to the "confusing" expressions simple past and

Hello Dawnstorm, In most of these sentences you could make a case for elided objects, that are taken care off by context (rather than considered irrelevant, as in "I am eating."): e.g. Yes, I saw X. X = anaphoric; referring to "Did

She is eating dinner for one hour. / She has been eating dinner for one hour. He is watching TV all day. / He has been watching TV all day.

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. /

－Do you mean "He was reading a book for an hour." is the same as "He was going to read a book for an hour."? No. My example was in the present tense. A present progressive tense expresses an activity taking place at the