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Results tagged with progressive-aspect
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Questions related to the grammatical aspect that expresses an incomplete action or a state at a specific point in time. For specific tenses, see the tags 'present-progressive', 'present-continuous', 'future-progressive', 'past-continuous' and 'perfect-continuous'.
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"I have never done it" vs "I have never been doing it"
"I have never been dating."
I heard some non-native speaker said it. For me it should be just Present Perfect ("I have never dated.") Because my grammar book says that an absence of some action i …
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"is being on something"
The second sentence causes me problems. I have seen it somewhere. For me it looks like the verb to be is used twice (is / being). Is it grammatically correct? If yes, what does the second usage give t …
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Simple + Simple clauses when one event interrupts another
If he had been standing near the house when the wall collapsed, it would have killed him.
If he had stood near the house when the wall collapsed, it would have killed him.
Does the second sentence s …
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Ascertain exact tense from reported speech
Alphonse tells me:
“Scott said he had been studying Greek for five years.”
I am trying to imagine what Scott could actually have told Alphonse. I can come up with two situations:
a) Scott: “I studi …
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