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Freddy

8:34 AM

@snailboat How about sandy because of colour :)

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Damkerng T.

11:03 AM

A: "The only one fooled" vs "the only one being fooled"

Neither of them is ungrammatical. It just depends on what the situation is. At first I thought he was the victim. Then I realized that, no, the only one fooled was me. This sentence means that this has happened in the past. At first I thought he was the victim. Then I realized that, no,...

The answer's got 5 upvotes, but this part doesn't sound exactly right to me:

> "Being" indicates the situation is still happening right now. (Definition of "being": the fact of existing)

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Damkerng T.

2:16 PM

I agree with all the comments above, but I wonder how often native speakers will use tells (or is telling) for saying that Lucy told the speaker that "a while ago" in reporting (which is different from re-telling, where the present tenses can be used whenever it's appropriate, even though the event happened years or ages ago). — Damkerng T. 1 min ago

Oh, hi! @Iplodman