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Tara2 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar
Have/having trouble
CalifJimI have problems understanding ... talks about your relation to the topic in general terms.I'm having problems understanding ... talks about the fact that you repeatedly keep running into problems these days as you rack your brain trying to understand the topic.
When a stative verb can be used in continuous form too, we can use both simple and continuous to mean approximately the same thing:
1- You're looking pretty today.
2- You look pretty today.
Why is "have" different? Why "have in the above examples mean "in general" unlike "am having"?
I thought we can use both "am having" and "have" to describe the current situation.
3- We are having a nice time
4- We have a nice time
These two mean Now I have a nice time, right?
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Tara2 Why is "have" different? I don't know. It's just a complicated verb.
- Tara2 Why is "have" different?
- I don't know.
- It's just a complicated verb.
- 3- We are having a nice time4- We have a nice timeThese two mean Now I have a nice time, right?
- No.
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Tara2Why is "have" different?
I don't know. It's just a complicated verb.
Tara2I thought we can use both "am having" and "have" to describe the current situation.3- We are having a nice time4- We have a nice timeThese two mean Now I have a nice time, right?
No. Those are different. 'have' is dynamic here.
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