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Can we use past perfect progressive in the context where present tense is predominantly used?
As I understand, past perfect is used to express an action that had happened before something else in the past. But in the paragraph I came across, there appeared past perfect progressive in the ...
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Present perfect continuous
Are the answers I chose correct. My choices are in bold.
I have been pumping/I have pumped up three tyres. Would you like to do the forth?
I have been greasing/I have greased my car. That's why my ...
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Simple past sounds better but past perfect seems more accurate
I think it's grammatically more accurate to say,"The market was closed after a virus had been found." However, it sounds "better" to say,"The market was closed after a virus was found." Grammatically, ...
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Present perfect continuous
How are we to understand whether present perfect progressive implies that the action is still in progress, versus implying it has stopped just now or recently?
In simple sentences like these two,
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A grammar rule (Present perfect)
Is this rule correct?
when 'for' and 'since' are used in a sentence(in present perfect tense) to show duration of an action they imply that the action is still in progress. Without the 'for', the ...
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Present perfect with to be [closed]
Is it grammatically correct to say "The teeth are grown up" , assuming "grown up" is not used here as noun, i.e. "grown-up" ?
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Exchanging “get” with “will have been” [closed]
Can we use "will get translated" to replace "will have been translated"? For passive sentence, it looks like maybe we can; is that right?
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Present perfect or simple past [duplicate]
Why is it better to use simple past than present perfect in the first six sentences?
1.Did you win the game of chess?
2.Did you see Ann?
3.Did you call Jane?
4.When did you join the company?
5.Did ...
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past perfect and past continuous [closed]
Which of these is correct?
Before he had come to the factory, Tom was studying at the University of London.
Before he came to the factory, Tom had studied at the University of London.
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Can the Future Perfect be used in a main clause of a conditional sentence that has a stative/non-action verb in the if-clause?
A student asked me this question today about a sentence like:
(1) If Canada's population is 40 million, the Canadian economy will have been more dynamic.
I was asked if it corresponded, in a future ...
