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Hachi8 Posted 11 years ago
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I don't think it's natural to say "A car is stopping right now.", but I am wondering the sentence/expression is fine enough to native speakers or people who are as good at English as the native speakers...
  

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We don't very often have occasion to say those words, but, if we do have occasion to say them, ,they are OK. Why do you think they are not natural?

— Fivejedjon

  • We don't very often have occasion to say those words, but, if we do have occasion to say them, ,they are OK.
  • Why do you think they are not natural?
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We don't very often have occasion to say those words, but, if we do have occasion to say them, ,they are OK. Why do you think they are not natural?
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Thank you, fivejedjon!! You always help meEmotion: happy

Actually I've used the expression or something like that to some people, and t
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Some people are unhappy about STOP in the progressive form, believing that the moment of stopping must be instantaneous, i.e, that it can have no duration.. However, the verb can convey the message of a slowing process that ends in a stop.
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