unjustly buried for a long time That's a matter of opinion! " I have thought it is ..but it has just proved otherwise" Right. It seems that with many mental stative verbs the present perfect is not used as expected. what would I

This is pretty much correct. The second sentence is definitely fine. Actually, the 'until now' is redundant in the first sentence.  Also, it might be more natural to use the perfect continuous in this sentence.  Perfect continuous is used

2CalifJim: What about 700 examples of "been knowing"? ;) 2Goodman: The verb "to know" works perfectly well with the Perfect Continuous (Progressive) Tense. Yes, it is FORBIDDEN to be used in this tense, but that doesn't

Hi, YSchneider . I am not a native speaker and this is indeed a tough grammar point for non-native speakers. Here is an extract from CGEL*: Did you lock the front door? in a domestic situation where it is known that the front door is locked at

«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

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

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

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