By Tenses, Present progressive

#1 John who took my pen is here. #2 John who is wearing my jacket is here. How firm a grasp would you like to obtain? (I know I shouldn't have written that, but I couldn't resist.) The thing that works for me is to take out the the subject and the "verb" and see if it still...

.D is the only answer. Present progressive is the only appropriate tense and aspect for action verbs in the present moment ('now').

She is eating dinner for one hour. / She has been eating dinner for one hour. He is watching TV all day. / He has been watching TV all day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Actually, these two cases are...

Right, except in the present perfect, as Grammar Geek showed you above. But then that's not, strictly speaking, expressing something about just the current moment, but about the entire hour that ends at the current moment.As explained above, you can't logically have an expression of...

Hi Christanford, present participle vs past participle - The past participle by itself (related) functions like an adjective and fits your definition, "connected in some way." "the heart and its related organs." I can't immediately think how the present participle (relating) would work by...

Anewcomer wrote:Hi Teachers I came across this sentence in a story book: He had stood upon his balcony and contemplated throwing himself down to the street. Why it's not like this: He had stood upon his balcony and contemplated to throw himself down to the street And what is the...

Grammar Geek wrote: Use the present progressive if you want to talk about something that happened while you were chatting. We were having a chat as we waited/while we were waiting, and it occurred to us that... or We were having a chat, and we realized that... Hi So, I understand...

Angliholic wrote:I regret saying that I hate you. I regret saying that I hated you. I regret to say that I hate you. I regret to say that I hated you. Which of the above four versions sound right to you? Which ones are identical in meaning? Thanks.Hi Angliholic, I regret to say I'd...

Hi, I'll have exam next week. I am needing to exercise "Rewrite the sentence " with tenses: present progressive,present simple,past simple , past progressive. can someone give me exercise? BTW-some one of here have MSN or something else to talk with microphone ? - " All the people said when...

Thank you, Mister Micawber! I thought as much. Indeed, it does sound more natural to use the present progressive in these sentences. However, from a logical standpoint, I still don’t understand why it would be improper to use the simple present tense. After all, in both cases, “to play” and “to...