By Present perfect, Stative verbs

«Tom is being a rich student. vs Tom will have been being a rich student. vs Tom will be being a rich student.» As you should have read, the Present Continuous tense is used to express an on-going (active) process, that is happening at the moment of speech (the present). But being a...

Thanks for the feedback! Tanit: «"Women were not ready to encounter those forms of difficulties they are actually facing now.» Ok. They were not ready to encounter the difficulties. They are facing them now. But are they ready now? Your sentence tell nothing about that. Right? It...

Liat, Let's not "muddy" up the water on present perfect by starting another debate on "Mr." vs. "Mr". Event the experts have varying opinions. I understand that you have probably an image that my English is not quite native, which is ok. I take no offense. Debates are based on what you know and...

Look ,the book tell me that we can't use the left words with "for" and" since" in Present Perfect Tense. we have arrived here for 5 years.(wrong) we have been here for 5 years.(right) we have borrowed the book for one week.(wrong) we have kept the book for one week.(right) Should I believe...

Ant_222 wrote:Yoong: do you think the following sentence is incorrect? «In 2002, Stricklin struggled mightily and was soon released. That was the last time he has driven a NASCAR race.» The 3 chief uses of pp: 1 state present perfect used with stative verb senses to refer to a state that...

Good you got the point, Ant_222. You need a little correction to what you wrote. #2 is only for stative verbs. 2. The state is not finished. Look at This vast land has belonged to a local tribe. They use it mostly for growing their own food sources. The land is still in the state of being...

I just want to make sure the following statement stands. Joan has been very sick but she is miraculously healthy now. I just wanted to verify if, even with a stative verb in a present perfect sentence, its continuity depends on the context. Therefore, to be more precise, maybe I should amend...

Ant_222 wrote: ...your explanation through active and passive attributes. I don't know why you need this classification. Maybe it's correct, but I don't like it. Hi, Ant_222. It is not "active and passive attributes," but "active and static attributes." Perhaps I should have used the words...