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HI I WANT TO KNOW WHICH ONE IS CORRECT: WHILE HE WAS READING THE BOOK, HIS UNCLE CAME BACK. OR WHILE HE HAD BEEN READING THE BOOK, HIS UNCLE CAME BACK. AND TELL ME ANY WEBSITE WHERE I COULD POST MINE QUESTIONS REAGARDING ENGLISH .................AND I CAN GET THE ANSWERS OF THOSE...

Dear Teachers,I would like to know how the past progressive tense works, and when it is correct to use it, in contradiction to the simple past tense?Moreover, I would like to get a terse explanation about 'present perfect progressive', I'm not even sure about the tense's name.I'm convined that it...

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...

Cool Breeze is right. And by the way, B has perfection, had been waiting is past perfect progressive. Without perfection would be the simple past progressive of was waiting.

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!!!!

Pemmican wrote:The Past Perfect Progressive is used to express an action that had been in progress (in the past) when another event in the past took place, so it expresses the background action: While he had been reading the book, his uncle came back home. While I had been doing my homework, it...

Magic79 wrote: 1. While he had been reading the book, his uncle came back. past perfect progressive + simple past What do you think of the following sentence: a. While he was reading the book, his uncle...

I am not a native speaker of English...but I dont think I agree with your use of the past perfect progressive!!!!!!!! 1. While he had been reading the book, his uncle came back. past perfect progressive + simple past ...

Grammar Geek wrote:Hi Pastsimple - Ironically, you should have used the simple past "I used this phrase." The combination of "today" and what was probably a single use makes simple past appropropriate. If you in fact did say it several times today and were planning on saying it again, then...