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Hi, there! Here are my doubts. Could you help me, please? - He (write) a composition since lunch time. In this kind of sentence I could use e.g. the * Present Perfect Progressive: - He has been writting a composition since lunch time. In this case since is a starting point and the verb tense...

Hi, 1. Why does it have to be 'prior to the main narrative time frame' here? Can it be 'past the main narrative time frame'? The future perfect progressive verb will have been listening suggests action that will begin in the time frame prior to the main narrative time frame and...

Hi, 1. Why does it have to be 'prior to the main narrative time frame' here? Can it be 'past the main narrative time frame'? The future perfect progressive verb will have been listening suggests action that will begin in the time frame prior to the main narrative time frame and...

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ

Hi everyone,I have a few grammar questions and I don't know how to answer them:Explain why the verb “To Be” is not a non-progressive verb?I know the simple present never talks about the present but what can be an exception to this rule?Why does the present tense not exist in English? What...

Ben,This is how I would explain it..<<use passive voice " ...to have been operating abnormally"<<< . " ...To have been operating abnormally" is not passive voice but present perfect progressive. It will take a real grammarian to explain the proper working of...

WesternAmerican wrote: Thank you very much, Thai.That was my friend asking those questions on my behalf.In regard to your '' I am full, I have been eating 2 bowls of rice'' -- You used the Present Perfect Progressive for that clause, claiming that the act of eating has stopped, but I could just...

I would like to share my 2-cent worth with you all. There are two parts to the question: a) the usage of the present progressive tense and b) the usage of the present perfect vs. that of the present perfect progressive. In general, the progressive form (i.e., -ing form of the base verb) is...

Bokeh wrote: Mister Micawber wrote:In the first case, you are finished thinking; in the second case, you are not.That's not necessarilly true. I have eaten doesn't mean you are still eating; it just means the residual state prevails. Same with thinking.Apples and oranges. You are comparing...

Onh1986 wrote:So what the difference between: - I was thinking. - I have thought.Hi,it is difficult to answer, because you should put verbs in example sentences in order to understand how to use them.I am thinking now. That's what I'm doing now. I'm thinking about my new invention. Please...