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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There is a class of verbs in English known as "stative" verbs because they relate to a state of being rather than an action (as in a dynamic verb); believe, hate, love for example are stative verbs. These are never used in the continuous

In English, with a verb like "love," one usually does not use the progressive; however, sometimes it is fine in converstion. E.g., "At first, I did not like the taste of this food, but I'm loving it more every day." In

Here are a few examples: Present perfect: 1) I have seen all the movies in the Star Wars series. 2) He has been to New York two times. Past Perfect 1) I had been to Rome several times before I travelled to London. 2) She had lived many years in

Hi jander, and welcome to English Forums. Do you understand the progressing, the "-ing" form used for things happening right now? (It's also used for the future.) In the sentence "he is being recommended for the

In the sentence "he is being recommended for the award " the answer is present progressive passive of recomend. Why do we state passive and progressive, what is the reasoning for that? Your example sentence isn’t grammatically wrong,

In English, certain verbs do not take present progressive to well in some contexts. These sentences sound quite unnatural to me. Perhaps: glistens is the word you may want to use. But based on your texts, I revsied them to make them more

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/6eacc4431196a882 http://www.english-test.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=125507#125507

In Irish there is also a present continuous tense - ... as distinct from "Itheann sé arán" = "He eats bread". Well all that is interesting, your post, that of Giles and Paul too but no one has told us yet ... think it