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Diamondrg Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

pprogressive vs ppprogressive

The rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The rainforest has been disappearing at an alarming rate.

What is the difference between these sentences?
  

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Hello, The rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate. The action is in progress, although it may not be in progress at this exact moment. html ]Present Continuous[/url].

  • Hello, The rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate.
  • The action is in progress, although it may not be in progress at this exact moment.
  • html ]Present Continuous[/url].
  • The rainforest has been disappearing at an alarming rate.
  • The action started in the past and has continued up until now.
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Hello,

The rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The action is in progress, although it may not be in progress at this exact moment. See also [url=http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html]Present Continuous[/url].

The rainforest

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