please help with the tenses
1) They are saving up their money to try and buy their first house
2) If we're lucky he will finish the work tomorrow
3) I've been learning Chinese for years but still can't speak it very well
anonymousplease help with the tenses
You try it first. Then we'll check your answers.
Hints.
If the last verb in the verb phrase has -ing, it's a continuous tense of some kind.
If the auxiliary is a form of have, it's a perfect tense of some kind.
CJ
1) They are saving up their money to try and buy their first house
2) If we're lucky he will finish the work tomorrow
3) I've been learning Chinese for years but still can't speak it very well
Here are the correct answers.
1) present continuous
2) future simple
3) present perfect continuous
CJ
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CJ
They are saving up their money to try and buy their first house.
1) present perfect continuous
2) future simple
3) past continuous
Present continuous