Timeline for "If you keep having this car with you, I will buy it from you next year"
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| Sep 17 at 23:39 | vote | accept | Bilal Zafar | ||
| Sep 17 at 12:14 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | It would be very odd to say "He keeps on having cars" to refer to buying them. No, of course you wouldn't talk about 'painting rooms' if you lived in a one-room house. If you 'keep on buying cars', you buy a different one each time. | |
| Sep 17 at 9:27 | comment | added | Bilal Zafar | .Last query pls.How about with "cars"?Could I say "He keeps on having cars" to mean "He keeps on buying cars"? If we have one room in house, should i still say "I keep on painting the rooms" or will it be "....painting the room? | |
| Sep 17 at 8:45 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | No - that's what I have been trying to explain. (I used 'cars' rather than 'a car' in my example, because you don't keep on buying the same car!) | |
| Sep 17 at 8:42 | comment | added | Bilal Zafar | This time I wanted to clarify the " buying" as in frequently buying a car instead of possession but i think "I keep having a car" cannot be valid alternative to "I keep buying a car" | |
| Sep 17 at 8:40 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | Well, you could use 'I am having [something]' to mean 'I am going to become the owner of it', but it's more usual to say 'I am getting/buying it'. | |
| Sep 17 at 8:34 | comment | added | Bilal Zafar | .I am having a car= I am buying a car. I keep on having a car= I keep on having a carv | |
| Sep 17 at 8:33 | comment | added | Kate Bunting | I thought I had explained that in my second paragraph. You can say I keep on having colds (I frequently catch a cold), but you can't say I keep on having a car to mean that it remains in your possession. Say the car still belongs to me or I still have it. | |
| Sep 17 at 8:14 | comment | added | Bilal Zafar | Thanks could you pls also clarify my point number 2 in question. Could I say "I keep on having a car" as in I keep on buying the car" | |
| Sep 17 at 8:05 | history | answered | Kate Bunting | CC BY-SA 4.0 |