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Present continuous form for a polite question?
Should we use use the present continuous form "would you mind if" to ask a polite question?
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“Will” vs. “going to” vs. Present Continious [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“The train will leave” vs. “is going to leave” vs. “leaves” vs. “is leaving”
Here are three sentences:
David is going ...
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What's the difference between “I want” and “I am wanting”?
What is the difference between the two?
Why and where is the latter very strange sounding variant used?
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I am going to go?
My English teacher told me that "going to go" doesn't exist in English but I saw it many times. For example "The whole band is going to go to show their support". I'd like to know if it's possible to ...
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Is this correct: “Water will be being drunk by Michael”?
I started with "Michael is drinking water", which I could convert to "Water is being drunk by Michael", which I could change to the past tense as "Water was being drunk by Michael".
That leads me to ...
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Why “should be doing” and not just “should do” in the following sentences?
What is the difference between "should X" and "should be Xing" in the following contexts? Or are they interchangeable?
10 Things you should do to improve the health of your hair.
10 Things ...
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“I stay in Canada” vs. “I will stay in Canada” [duplicate]
Situation: I am in Canada and will go back to Hong Kong next week. So, I want to tell my friends that "I will stay in Canada until the 6th of March".
Question: I do not know if the word will should ...
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Grammaticality of “I am worrying” and how it compares to “I am worried” and “I worry”
This question is about worried about vs. worrying about. I think "being worried about someone/something" is more usual than "worry about", isn't it?
Can I use the progressive aspect for ongoing ...
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“rain was coming till tomorrow”
I am asking this question on behalf of a friend of mine. Do tell me, can and when or why can we use past form when we predict something in the future. I agree the phrase is not full. Anyway, the ...
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Is 'I will definitely be living away from the shop' correct?
I want to say that I'm definitely going to change my address and live elsewhere, but I don't know the exact day when I'm going to live there, it will happen in a time of one year. Or should I use: 'I ...
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“They develop skills at this age” vs. “they are developing skills at this age”
Which one is correct? If both are correct, are there any differences in meaning?
For children, the age of 3 is very
critical time, because they develop
their language skills rapidly at this
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Future Passive Progressive? [duplicate]
Does some future passive progressive tense exist, such as:
He will be being interviewed by police."
as a counterpart to the past passive progressive tense, such as:
He was being ...
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Is “have been being investigated” in the following sentence grammatically correct?
I need to know whether the following sentence is grammatically correct or not. Specifically, I am unsure about have been being investigated part.
Do the times that I am using match each other?
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Subjunctive mood, progressive and perfect progressive tense
Are the following usages of subjunctive mood, progressive tense correct?
If I be being your wife a shrew, you have the option of divorcing me.
If I were being crowned May queen, I would ...
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Looking forward
Recently I've seen a sentence with "looking forward". Could you explain why it contains a progressive aspect. Doesn't this phrase mean a thought process which cannot be seen and thus must be regarded ...
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Present Simple or Present Continious [closed]
I have to write an email to inform other people about some error that occurred.
I want to write:
It is returning "value1" instead of "value2" when I select something which is causing the error.
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Using verb continuous for living abroad for a period of time [closed]
Suppose that a friend of mine is Thai and he usually lives in Thailand. Now he is in Australia and he is going to live in Australia for only a few years.
Should I say “A friend of mine is living in ...
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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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Difference between present tense and present continuous tense when using “is” and “are” [closed]
He is my brother.
They are my friends.
These two sentences are in the present tense, but I thought the verbs "is" and "are" were used only in the present continuous tense. If this is so, how then ...
