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Old 23-09-08, 08:10   #8 (permalink)
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Can I just add something about the present tense? People learning English often have a problem because English has three forms of present tense:

1) I talk ---- a general statement, not what you are doing
2) I am talking -- What is actually happening now
3) I do talk -- for emphasis, or a negative (I do not talk)

This is unusual in a language, and confusing (yes, Spanish does as well, but that's for later).

Also important to note that a verb is often expressed in more than one word in English. This is important for understanding the structure of a sentence. For example in the sentence

This time tomorrow I will have been shot

the verb actually consists of 4 words will have been shot which is a part of the verb to shoot
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