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“You go and dry yourselves while I polish the car.” or "You go and dry yourselves while I'm polishing the car." [closed]
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Oxford Dictionary says: "while-at the same time as sth else is happening
eg: You can go swimming while I'm having lunch."
so I am confused. Why doesn't ...
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Which present tense should you use when talking about continuous pain?
The speaker can still feel the pain in the moment of speaking (he's asking if he's still able to go abroad with this back pain) & it's some sort of dialogue between some ordinary guy & a ...
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Is this sentence of Vitalik Buterin correct?
I was reading A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation of Vitalik Buterin. The following sentence strikes me as odd:
Data availability checks do rely on a very conservative assumption that there exists ...
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Is try to vs is trying to
I was taking a quiz at Coursera and there was a sentence
What kitchen counter may be a better environment to help someone who is try to manage their weight?
I was confused – shouldn't this be "is ...
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Which one would fit better in this context between present continuous and present perfect continuous?
It is from official standard English test. The question is like below.
Fitness enthusiasts may feel that their workouts are no longer as effective as they were. When an individual ______________ for ...
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Present Simple or Present Progressive?
I've got a sentence which claims to use the Present Simple. The source of the sentence is https://en.puzzle-english.com/directory/present-simple-markers where the use of the Present Simple is ...
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Any difference between these two (Present or Present Cont.)
"My husband will always invite his friends round for a drink just as I'm trying to put the kids to bed!"
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"My husband will always invite his friends round for a drink just as I try to put the kids ...
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Confused between Simple Present and Present Progressive
I know that the Present Progressive is used for current events (the action is happening right now) and Simple Present is for express habits.
But, i'm still having trouble to distinguish them.
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Use present continuous instead of present simple in a sentence
I saw on my english book the exercise's sentence:
According to many, Google is changing our lives by broadening our knowledge of the world.
Is it also correct "changes" instead of "is changing" ...
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What's the difference between "He's going to fly tomorrow", "He's flying tomorrow" and "He flies tomorrow"? [closed]
Let consider that someone will take a flight tomorrow with a plan of course. In this case, we can use He's going to fly tomorrow in Simple Future.
How ever, I've learnt that we can also use Present ...
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Is it correct to say "We start tomorrow"? Shouldn't it be "We are starting tomorrow"? (present simple vs continuous for future event)
Here's an example of a short conversation between me and a native speaker via text messages:
A: I'm so exited for this app
B: Yeah, me too
A: We start tomorrow
B: OK
Shouldn't it be "We are ...
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