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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Future perfect tenses
How come you can say both 'I will have been working/living in London for 3 years' and 'I will have worked/lived in London for 3 years' or 'It will have rained for 23 minutes' and 'It will have been raining for 23 minutes'?
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Anonymous How come you can say ...? It's the structure of English. All tenses in English have a non-continuous and a continuous form.
- Anonymous How come you can say ...?
- It's the structure of English.
- All tenses in English have a non-continuous and a continuous form.
- For some verbs and for some tenses there is a noticeable difference in meaning.
- For other verbs and tenses the difference is slight.
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AnonymousHow come you can say ...?
It's the structure of English. All tenses in English have a non-continuous and a continuous form. For some verbs and for some tenses there is a noticeable difference in meaning. For other verbs and tenses the difference is slight.
Is that what you mean?
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