Timeline for Next month, I _______ John for 20 years
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| S Jun 10, 2022 at 16:06 | history | mod moved comments to chat | |||
| S Jun 10, 2022 at 16:06 | comment | added | gotube♦ | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Jun 10, 2022 at 16:05 | comment | added | gotube♦ | Agreed with @RobbieGoodwin that this question is only about what the correct answer is, and the issue of the question banks is an unrelated tangent. The answer is clear enough that B is correct in most parts of the world, but that there's a good chance D is correct in Bangladeshi English. So, I'm removing comments about the question bank to chat | |
| Jun 10, 2022 at 13:53 | history | edited | tryingtobeastoic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 28, 2022 at 5:19 | comment | added | tryingtobeastoic | @JamesK Yes. The Question bank has been provided by a third party not affiliated with the University. | |
| May 27, 2022 at 21:37 | comment | added | James K | blog.learntube.academy/… has the correct solution. I suspect the solution banks are not provided by the University but by individuals who make mistakes. | |
| May 27, 2022 at 4:14 | history | edited | DialFrost | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 26, 2022 at 13:27 | comment | added | Wyck | There's a biblical sense of "knowing" someone. And D might be appropriate if it occurred every Friday night after a bottle of wine. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 20:57 | answer | added | user8356 | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 24, 2022 at 17:11 | comment | added | Graham | @tryingtobeastoic Regarding your edit, comments on both these websites have been posted by people whose first language is not American English or British English. Be cautious about who you believe. :) | |
| May 24, 2022 at 14:45 | comment | added | Kirt | Related question on English Language and Usage stack. Also, this claims that "in South Asia [(D)] may be common. There is a regional preference there for the past continuous tense of the verb (been knowing for known.)" | |
| May 24, 2022 at 11:47 | history | edited | tryingtobeastoic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 24, 2022 at 7:09 | answer | added | Kirt | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 24, 2022 at 5:24 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I looked at those websites which claim that (d) is correct. I would fervently avoid them, especially any which says Choose to correct option: argh!! Trustworthy websites will say (b) is the correct answer. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 5:07 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | I meant any continuous forms of know.e.g She was knowing him... we would have been knowing.... etc. Believe and want are two other verbs that are not usually used in the progressive form. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 3:53 | answer | added | Davislor | timeline score: 31 | |
| May 24, 2022 at 3:40 | comment | added | Davislor | @Mari-LouA I can think of cases where future perfect progressive would be idiomatic (“I will have been dating John for a year,” “I will have been avoiding John,” and some other verbs, particularly those for actions that can be stopped and restarted), it doesn’t work well with “knowing”” in AmE. | |
| May 24, 2022 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/1528933894015311872 | ||
| May 23, 2022 at 22:53 | history | became hot network question | |||
| May 23, 2022 at 16:42 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | If we don't normally say "I am knowing you/him/her" etc. then it stands to reason we avoid the present continuous in all it forms. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 16:30 | comment | added | WendyG | create accounts correct them and link to here. | |
| May 23, 2022 at 15:08 | vote | accept | tryingtobeastoic | ||
| May 23, 2022 at 15:03 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 55 | |
| May 23, 2022 at 15:00 | history | edited | tryingtobeastoic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 23, 2022 at 14:53 | history | asked | tryingtobeastoic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |