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Olive file 673 Posted 7 years ago
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Is my understanding correct?

I have eaten at three restaurants since I arrived two weeks ago. From the moment I arrived until now I have been to three restaurants. These are completed actions and the total number of restaurants I have been to is three.

I have been eating at three restaurants since I arrived two weeks ago. From the moment I arrived until now I have been going to the same three restaurants to eat. It is a continuing action. I have been alternating between these three restaurants.

  

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I would understand the same things you did from the two sentences. The second one suggests the only restaurants you've been to are those three, and you have been alternating your visits.

— David Hatton

  • I would understand the same things you did from the two sentences.
  • The second one suggests the only restaurants you've been to are those three, and you have been alternating your visits.
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I would understand the same things you did from the two sentences.

The second one suggests the only restaurants you've been to are those three, and you have been alternating your visits.

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olive file 673 Is my understanding correct?

Yes.

olive file 673I have been eating at three restaurants since I arrived two weeks ago.

You correctly deduce that this does not mean that you have been at three restaurants at the same time (an impossibility) and you have not stopped eating for two weeks (an impossibili

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