Review of tenses
State and event/dynamic verbs
Historic present for books, films and plays.http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/histpreterm.htm
Notes
Tenses - Relating the past to the present, state verbs (perception, mental states & feelings, relationships and states of being) and event/dynamic verbs (momentary acts, activities, processes).
When state verbs are used in the continuous form to emphasise the temporary nature of the situation or with a change of meaning.
Compare:
He's very helpful.
He's being very helpful.
He appears to be quite cold.
He's appearing in a play.
They have a house in the country.
They're having a party on Saturday.
Can you see the mountains from here?
Karen is seeing quite a lot of Geoff at the moment.
I think you should take the job.
I'm thinking about changing jobs.
Notes
Tenses - Relating the past to the present, state verbs (perception, mental states & feelings, relationships and states of being) and event/dynamic verbs (momentary acts, activities, processes).
When state verbs are used in the continuous form to emphasise the temporary nature of the situation or with a change of meaning.
Compare:
He's very helpful.
He's being very helpful.
He appears to be quite cold.
He's appearing in a play.
They have a house in the country.
They're having a party on Saturday.
Can you see the mountains from here?
Karen is seeing quite a lot of Geoff at the moment.
I think you should take the job.
I'm thinking about changing jobs.
Going further
Listening & Pronunciation - Accents
Bernie Sanders video - New York accent
Bernie Sanders video - New York accent
Language Training - Grammar - Aspect - simple, continuous and perfect http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442655/The%20English%20Tense%20System
Speaking - 33 ways to improve your speaking http://seansstudypage.blogspot.it/2016/02/33-ways-to-speak-better-english-all.html
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