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If you're staying..., when: * action taking place in the moment of speaking * action taking place only for a limited period of time * action arranged for the future If you stay.., when: * action in the present taking place once, never or
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Howdy, Here're two sentences from a video about Playstation 3, one is played after another: 1) No matter what TV you are using... 2) No matter what video cables you use... Why on Earth is there the present continuous in the first one and
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Like some of you already mentioned, a sentence like " If he took my advice , he did the right thing." is not a true conditional sentence... I think that for a sentence to be truly conditional it must be about something that we know
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The difference is in tenses: the 1st sentence is in Present Simple (action is regulary repeated) and the 2nd is in Present Continuous (the action is happening now, at the moment of speech )
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There are some suggestions which might be of use. We use it when referring to the decision which has been just made (in the moment of speech) It is a nice car! I will probably buy one. We don't use it when implying something planned
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And that's why only the progressive tense is working here instead of works ? As Clive points out above, it's a matter of the meaning you want to convey. The present simple and the present continuous have different meanings. You have to
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Are you learning languages other than English? Are you now in the process of learning other languages? Do you learn languages other than English? Is it your habit to learn other languages from time to time? (There aren't many opportunities in
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Hi,
I have 2 sentences I need to select
TENSE and TIME DIFFERENCE used.
I understand what you mean by ' tense '. You just want to name the tense.
I don't know what you mean by 'time difference'.
Please
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Could someone just please clear something up for me I did post a thread a couple of days ago but two people gave me two different answers so I dont know which is correct I will say what I think in red
I have 2 sentences I need to select
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This use of language gives meaning to individual liives and to all kinds of social realities, but the use of language can take many different forms, because people in their daily lives are drawing on intellectual history even when they don't
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