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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Guys will you please help me with this?

1. John ______ in San Diego for the past 3 years (and he still lives there).
a. lived
b. has lived
c. was lived
d.has been living
  

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We usually prefer that you give it a stab first, but I'll just use this as a little lesson in verbs. The answer is d . It's the present perfect continuous tense, indicating an on-going action that started in the past, continues to the present and is most likely going to continue in the future.

— Philip

  • We usually prefer that you give it a stab first, but I'll just use this as a little lesson in verbs.
  • The answer is d .
  • It's the present perfect continuous tense, indicating an on-going action that started in the past, continues to the present and is most likely going to continue in the future.
  • b would be correct, but it would also probably indicated that John is about to move.
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We usually prefer that you give it a stab first, but I'll just use this as a little lesson in verbs.
The answer is d. It's the present perfect continuous tense, indicating an on-going action that started in the past, continues to the present and is most likely going to continue in the future. b would be correct, but it would also probably indicated that John is about to move.
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