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B.J Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Please help me

I don't understand the differece.

I heve been cheking my e-mail.

I am cheking my e-mail.

What kind of situation I can use these sentenses?
  

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I have been che c king my e-mail regularly for two months now. The action began two months ago and is probably still going on. I am che c king my e-mail regularly now.

  • I have been che c king my e-mail regularly for two months now.
  • The action began two months ago and is probably still going on.
  • I am che c king my e-mail regularly now.
  • There's no mention when the checking began but the sentence suggests that there was a time when you didn't use to do that.
  • CB
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I have been checking my e-mail regularly for two months now.
The action began two months ago and is probably still going on.

I am checking my e-mail regularly now.
There's no mention when the checking began but the sentence suggests that there was a time when you didn't use to do that.

CB
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I am checking my e-mail regularly now.

So this sentence means, for example, "Everyday after lunch, I check my e-mail." my understanding is ok?
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B.J"Every day after lunch, I check my e-mail
Please look up the word regularly in your dictionary. You may chack your e-mail every day, every two days or even every week. If you do that, you do it regularly.

If you don't want to give the impression that you didn't use to check it, just say: I
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So...for example, I got a new job this spring and began to use e-mail.

And then "Recently I am cheaking my e-mail."

Do you say that way?
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B.J
I am cheking my e-mail.

This says: I am at this minute logging in to check if my boss has sent me any email

B.JI heve been checking my e-mail

The present perfect signifies that the act of checking has started from a point in time passed which by rule can not be denoted by past time markers s
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One extra point I want to make which is when you add the adverb "regularly" to the sentence, it will skew the meaning which was intended. Consider this:

A- I sent you an email earlier, did you get it?

B- I am checking my e-mail? ----He is logging in to check (now), as I explained in my last post.

If "regularly" is thrown into the sentnce, then it has a slight resemblanc
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"yes, I have been checking.." .

"I am checking my email regularly but I didn't see your email in my In Box" this is a perfectly good sentence.

So you think that

"I have been checking my email regularly but I didn't see your email in my In Box" and "I am checking my email regularly but I didn't see your email in my In Box" are same meaning.
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Others may disagree because of the mixed tense but I would say "yes" at least to my ears in this context.

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