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Believer Posted 19 years ago
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Do we concern about what will be happening afterward?

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00I am going to write three sentences in the present perfect progressive, past perfect progressive, and future perfect progressive. Can you tell me what will happen after those specific times? DOes the possibility of him playing tennis after each specific time still exist for all three cases?02br
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001. Sam has been playing tennis 01u00for three hours02u00.02br
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002. Sam had been playing tennis 01u00for three hours before his father called him in02u00.02br
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003. Sam will have been playing tennis 01u00for three hours by the time his father gets home02u00. 0-
  

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0 1, 3: he may or not continue to play tennis after the reference time. You must provide more context in order to define that. 02br 02br 00 2: very probably not, as he was interrrupted by his father calling him in.

— Marius Hancu

  • 0 1, 3: he may or not continue to play tennis after the reference time.
  • You must provide more context in order to define that.
  • 02br 02br 00 2: very probably not, as he was interrrupted by his father calling him in.
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0 1, 3: he may or not continue to play tennis after the reference time. You must provide more context in order to define that. 02br
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0Thank you, Marius.02br
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00I do agree that for No. 2, Sam probably stopped playing tennis when his father called him into the house possibly if he is to be a good young man as I think he is.05002br
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00If I changed the sentence like this, is it going to be like No.1 and 2 and the chances are that he might have continued or might not have continue
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0 Yes, you have uncertainty also at 2 now. 0-
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