Use the present continuous tense to say that you are doing something now which is ongoing, eg I am watching, he is reading. In English, the present participle ends in ‘ing’, eg saying, listening, ...

I’m a little fussy about past participles. Unjustifiably fussy. It may have to do with the fact that I married someone from small-town Massachusetts, where everything is “I have ate this” and “I ...

Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry ...

Continues from Part One and shows where participles and participial phrases can go wrong. MOST dictionaries show the three principal parts of a verb; for example, see (base form), saw (past tense), ...

We can use the present perfect continuous to: 1. talk about an activity which started in the past and is still going on now: He has been working here for three years. He started working in McCarthy's ...

Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...