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agent5566

Feb 29, 2016 11:46

Hi gyus. Could you help me with simple (and stupid maybe) question? I heard sometimes people say 'What means XXX ?' instead of 'What does XXX mean?'. Is it OK to say in this way?

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 13:01

*watching

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 13:00

whatching TV can't be perfect

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:59

there is no sense in this, isn't it?

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:59

I have watched TV

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:59

So i guess that the tense is using when we can't just use perfect, for example:

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:56

yeah, it's killing me

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:51

I'm still confused about perfect contitious. Most of sources say that the group of tenses are used to show perfect **duration** of an activity in time or number of times. My question is it exactly for that task? or the tenses can be **real** usful without pointing time or number of times? Yes, i saw some examples without durations, but i can't handle the real usefulness. For example:

I've been watching TV.

Why can't i just say something like this? :

I was watching TV couple of minutes ago

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:15

interesting

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:14

@CopperKettle hm, let me see

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:12

it's strange to see adverbs with prepositions

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:09

never heard of using "in" before "here"

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 12:09

thnks @CopperKettle

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 11:44

Oh, someone alive is here :)

agent5566

Dec 4, 2015 10:14

Hi people

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:56

@CopperKettle double fail

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:53

4-year old boy don't know the word 'epileptic' :)

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:48

the

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:48

articles are real pain in one place

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:47

yeah :)

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:47

the bathroom

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:47

is it ok?

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:47

I've been watching TV and now i'm going to bathroom.

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:36

i understand purpose of the tense when we use it with time duration

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:35

yeah, it is

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:33

really? interesting

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:32

And what if a person just say "I'm feeling myself tired" ? What is the sence of the tense in this situation? I mean in this situation without any time duration

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:30

Aaa

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:28

Why is this tense here? is it simpler to say "I felt mysef really tired recently". What is the difference?

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:26

Lets take a look on sentence "Recently, I have been feeling really tired."

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:25

yeah :(

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:24

hi everebody!

agent5566

Sep 4, 2015 11:52

hi folks

agent5566

Jul 2, 2015 15:39

hi guys

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:53

;)

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:41

maybe regards more natural in this case

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:40

"Yours captain obvious " as in letters

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:39

No, i mean i'm captain

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:35

recall to captain obvious meme

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:32

Yours captain obvious ;)

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:31

I think it's almost impossible to get native level in any lang after some age, kid brains absorb lang semantics

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:23

But i like fixed word order in sentence, it is one of the key reason that so many people could learn the language. Learning language with flexible word order is mind blowing for english speaker, i think.

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:14

hi @fahdijbeli

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:14

Tenses are a big confusion for me, and articles :)

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:10

My issue with work is in russian meaning of it, we can use one word for job, work, office

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:08

i see, you have helped me alot

agent5566

Jun 24, 2015 09:05

yeah, and walk is movement too ;)

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agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:24

i've got it!

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:23

Present Perfect Continious is really cofusing me :(

agent5566

Oct 7, 2015 15:20

Hi folks