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Clasian Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
About present continuous
There's a new famous song that contains the following phrase :"it always keeps coming back, the sound of missing you". Wouldn't it be more correctly written "it is always coming back"? We deal with an annoying repeated action...
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" I agree, "always keeps coming back" is redundant. Chalk it up to poetic license. No one would dare argue with Irving Berlin's You Keep Coming Back Like A Song .
- " I agree, "always keeps coming back" is redundant.
- Chalk it up to poetic license.
- No one would dare argue with Irving Berlin's You Keep Coming Back Like A Song .
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Or, "It keeps coming back." I agree, "always keeps coming back" is redundant.
Chalk it up to poetic license.
No one would dare argue with Irving Berlin's You Keep Coming Back Like A Song.
Chalk it up to poetic license.
No one would dare argue with Irving Berlin's You Keep Coming Back Like A Song.
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