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Keyboard hat 11 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

I tried some verb tense. Please check if these are right.

Is all of these correct? (Or Are all of these correct?)

Simple:

This flower was beautiful. This Flower is beautiful. This flower will be beautiful.

Perfect:

This flower had been beautiful. This flower has been beautiful. This flower will have been beautiful

Continuous:

This flower was being beautiful. This flower is being beautiful. This flower will be being beautiful.

Perfect Continuous:

This flower had been being beautiful. This flower has been being beautiful. This flower will have been being beautiful.

  

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keyboard hat 11 Is all of this correct? ) The stative verb "be" is not used in the continuous tenses. Try a different verb if you want to produce good exemplars of all the different forms.

  • keyboard hat 11 Is all of this correct?
  • ) The stative verb "be" is not used in the continuous tenses.
  • Try a different verb if you want to produce good exemplars of all the different forms.
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keyboard hat 11Is all of this correct? (Or Are all of these correct?)

The stative verb "be" is not used in the continuous tenses. Try a different verb if you want to produce good exemplars of all the different forms.

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keyboard hat 11Is all of these correct? (Or Are all of these correct?)

You need the second one (the underlined one).

Your tenses are all technically correct. (The appropriateness and/or usefulness of those sentences are, however, questionable, as you already know.

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