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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Progressive

Guys, I've ran a search just like Marius instructed me.
I just want to be sure:
I've been living here for 3 years. this sentence implies that I've been living here for 3 years and I still am, right?

I've lived here for 3 years. correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this sentence imply the same thing? that I've been living here for 3 years and I still am?

And please consider these:
I'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year vs. I will study at the faculty of medicine next year.
Why do we use the first one(present progressive to indicate future..) instead of simply using the other sentence to indicate future?
  

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I'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year. I consider this one wrong.

  • I'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year.
  • I consider this one wrong.
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I'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year.
I consider this one wrong.
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And you haven't done a proper search as I told you:Emotion: sad

Do a search here (top right Search box) with
have been living ha
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Marius HancuI'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year.
I consider this one wrong.
Hi Marius

So do I. The continuous present tense is usually used to indicate future action in connection with verbs that involve motion:

He is coming next week.
I'm
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Why only motion?

I'm eating with my father tomorrow.

I'm having dinner with Mary next week.
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Marius HancuI'm studying at the faculty of medicine next year.
I consider this one wrong.
I don't.

I am studying with Tom tomorrow at home.

Tomorrow I'm studying at home, but next week at the library.

Seem perfect to me. Please, explain why you stated otherwise.

cheers[H]
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Tomorrow indicates future, why not simply saying I will study with Tom tomorrow at the library.
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Marius, I've read a lot, everything is still opaque to me.
I have lived here for 3 years. (this doesn't necessarily mean that I don't live here anymore, I might be living here, or not)
I have been living here for 3 years. (same here. I have been living here for 3 years, and now it's time for me to depart for my native country).
There are a lot of nuances between those two tenses..
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Marius, consider these:
1) I've lived in this apartment for three years, but I still haven't unpacked all my boxes. It will be nice when the place is finally organized.
In 1) the apartment is seen as the speaker's place of residence.
With the present perfect continuous "I have been living" the speaker sees the living as temporary. It can be illustra
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Which of course you can do, but this is not the question here.

cheers[H]

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