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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...

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...

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!!!!

Ruslana wrote:Hello, Jay, are you sure the verb "continue" can be used in the progressive form? I hesitate...I was tricked!! I focused at the two options given for the answer and that was "Present Progressive" and "Present Perfect Progressive". It didn't make me think much about the use of...

I have some problems with this parragraph: ( the verb has to be in Present Progressive or Present Perfect Progressive) Clouse........(continue).............his journeys since making the record book, and has not only visited every country in the world, but some two or three times. Now he is...

Pemmican wrote:As far as I know, there are these 13 tenses: a) Past Perfect Progressive ........................had been + present participle b) Past Perfect ..........................................had + past participle c) Past Progressive ...................................was/were + present...

Please help me, could u tell me what these are, I wrote that I think they might be, but im not sure Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last...

Exercise 2 Look through the following sentences and decide which are in the PRESENT SIMPLE tense, which are in the PAST SIMPLE tense and which are referring to future time. E.g. 1. We visited Spain last year. Past simple 2. The shop on the corner is open every Sunday. Past simple 3. I...

We are having 20 boxes delivered tomorrow. The above sentence uses what is called "causative form". We use the causative form to indicate that we are not doing something ourselves, but have arranged someone else to do it for us. The structure is: subject + have + object + past participle Note...

Technically, there are two tenses: Present (or Non-Past) and Past. There are four aspects derived from two aspect pairs (simple vs. perfect and simple vs. progressive): Simple, Perfect, Progressive, and Perfect Progressive Combining these gives eight tense-aspect combinations, sometimes...