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Hi,I was told that a present or past progressive tense like "is sleeping" or "was sleeping" denotes a temporary action or activity and the present perfect or past perfect progressive is used to indicate duration.I don't understand why a present progressive is one that...

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

Hao Thai:"Now could you please do the same for past perfect, presentperfect, future perfect, and their associated progressivecousins?"Ok, but that'll take some time. PAST PERFECT PROGRESSIVEYesterday at 9:30 I had been eating for 5 minutes. |<----------------->| ...

Helo, Kooyeen. «I think... 30 seconds is too little to trigger a past perfect... well, generally speaking. In this case I wouldn't use the a past perfect after 30 seconds, maybe I could (if I wanted) after one or two hours. In other cases I could not use it until some days are passed, for...

Don't you understand what people are talking about when they refer to "verb tenses", Jackson? The -ing form of verbs are used in the progressive/continuous 'tenses':- present progressive- present perfect progressive- past perfect progressive- future progressiveetc."I have been sleeping." "It...

I was told that there are twelve tenses in English: 1: Simple Present Tense 2: Present Perfect Tense 3: Present Progressive Tense 4: Present Perfect Progressive Tense 5: Simple Past Tense 6: Past Perfect Tense 7: Past Progressive Tense 8: Past Perfect Progressive Tense 9: Simple Future...

Tanglish wrote: Hi all, I can easily indentified the present, past , future tenses, but I don't know anything about Present Participle and Past Participle Tenses. Could anyone explain me with example and when I have to use that tenses???? Thanks!!!!

Hi, I've rarely seen grammar books that give sentence examples of using "Perfect Progressive" tense for Be Verb. Is that because they don't exist? Please advise. They exist, but you need a context in which they make sense. Be verb in Present Perfect Progressive tense Be verb in Past Perfect...

I've rarely seen grammar books that give sentence examples of using "Perfect Progressive" tense for Be Verb. Is that because they don't exist? Please advise. Be verb in Present Perfect Progressive tense Be verb in Past Perfect Progressive tense Be verb in Future Perfect Progressive tense