Timeline for present perfect progressive for a negative sentence
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| Mar 31, 2015 at 14:18 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 30, 2015 at 4:51 | answer | added | aparente001 | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Mar 29, 2015 at 21:57 | history | suggested | Tim | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 16:31 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglishLL/status/582218411335413761 | ||
| Mar 29, 2015 at 15:46 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | ... by the same token, I have not been sleeping for 5 days could be a simple denial - I might actually have been asleep continuously for 4 days, or I might have slept "normally" for several (but not 5) days consecutively. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 15:04 | comment | added | hunter | @FumbleFingers I didn't think of that before writing my diatribe! To me, it can't be a denial of "I have been playing the piano for ages" unless the accent is strongly on the "haven't" or on the "ages." | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 15:03 | answer | added | hunter | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 14:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Depending on context, I haven't been playing the piano for ages could mean the last time I was playing the piano was a long time ago. Or it could be a simple denial of the assertion I have been playing the piano for ages. Which itself might either be asserting that you started playing many years ago, and have continued to play intermittently ever since, or that you've been playing continuously playing for the past several hours. | |
| Mar 29, 2015 at 14:01 | history | asked | Yves Lefol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |