By Tenses, Present continuous

There is no good reason to break the parallelism, so in both cases the same tense is used in both parts of the sentence.Why would you define an action in a tense different from the tense given in describing the action originally? That would be like saying:Dining out is when you went to the...

Simple Present: I study English Present Continuous: I am studying English Present Perfect: I have studied English Present Perfect Continuous: I have been studying English Simple Past: I studied English Past Perfect: ? Past Prefect Continuous:? Future: I will study English Future Continuous:...

Hi I know that "ain't" is incorrect English, however, is it OK to use the present continuous tense after this word, i.e., I ain't telling you/I ain't driving there etc. I would rather say: I ain't tell you OR ...drive there.

I walked to the nurse desk and asked for a bottled water and one of the nurses told me that I couldn't take any liquid before surgery. Instead, she told me to get some rest. I walked back to my room and told my mom. Mom said, "Sounds like she knows what she's talking about."...

Hi, Please tell me what conditional these are and it they are correct If we take a look at the table of contents, it tell us what topics are included and on what page the information is located. -- Is this concern with what some people seem to call 'universal truth' and thus, a zero...

Hi, I have three questions on tenses. 1. How are they different? The mixing of a present and present continuous is what troubles me. He frowns, while he looks very embarrassed. He is frowning, while he is looking very embarrassed. He is frowning, while he looks very embarrassed. He frowns,...

Hi,no, it always makes sense as long as he believes it's not going to work (It's not gonna work = This method it is never going to work, I will never do it, I feel what I am doing won't work anyway, so why even bother to try or keep on trying?) You shot, you missed it. You shot again,...

A guy is having a hard time cutting a plank using an axe. His teammate next to him suggests he try with a macheta. The macheta breaks when it hits the plank and the guy says, "It's not gonna work" Why does the speaker use the present continuous tense? It would make sense if he says...

The word 'hanging' is the present participle of the verb 'hang'. In your sentence, the present participle is used with the simple present form of 'be' to build the present continuous tense.

Anyway, I'm not going to write all those examples again, but the gist of it is that in the affirmative, you can explain a difference between present continuous and present perfect, but in the negative, when something doesn't happen, it doesn't make much difference if it doesn't...