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I am taking her to the movie. continuous / progressive present or present continuous / progressive He will be working for your father's law firm. future continuous / progressive I took the test and passed! simple past She has taken the medicine for her cold. perfect He had been living...

Your examples seem to show that you understand it well.In simple present you actually feel the hate and do the deed. I hate to embarrass you like this. Since hate can have some duration, you could use present continuous. I'm hating every minute of this.In simple past, I hated taking the toy...

Hi YSchneiderYes, that's one of the sentences I might disagree with CalifJim about. If I were typing out an e-mail and wanted to tell the person that I was sending an attachment with it, I doubt that I would use the simple past tense. I'd probably use either the present perfect OR the...

Hi, Simple Present: I study English Present Continuous: I am studying English Present Perfect: I have studied English Present Perfect Continuous: I have been studying English Simple Past: I studied English Past Continuous I was studying EnglishPast Perfect: I had studied English Past Perfect...

Simple Present: I study English Present Continuous: I am studying English Present Perfect: I have studied English Present Perfect Continuous: I have been studying English Simple Past: I studied English Past Perfect: ? Past Prefect Continuous:? Future: I will study English Future Continuous:...

Hi AvangiTo me, the word 'if' is used like 'whenever' in your sentence, and the word 'will' is used to indicate a habitual or repeated action (i.e. in that sentence, you are saying it is not your habit to wonder about things such as closed doors while you are on vacation)....

Newguest wrote: Goodman wrote: Newguest wrote: Hi I have a few questions. 1. We were having a chat while we were waiting. IT IS BETTER TO WRITE "We had a chat while we were waiting" Are both sentences OK, or not? 2. Is it possible to say: The instructions to this exercise are saying that...

hello, hope you are still in need in an answer "simple future" like simple past is used usually to focus on one completed action in either the past or future ex. I bought it yesterday / I will buy it tomorrow "past continuous" like future continuous (unlike present continuous) is usually to...

Hi Goodman You wrote: I think you missed the humor in my repsonse. "I am loading up my boot", as boots we put on our feet. As to the correctness of vincent's sentence. I'll say this. It sounded really awkward to me. I would just say " they are loading the things into the trunk".My apologies...

Simple present. They all form a logical pattern. You are wrong about present perfect, by the way. am, is, are + -ing Present continuous was, were + -ing Past continuous am, is, are + anything else Simple present was, were + anything else Simple past has, have + been + -ing ...