Examples | |
They walk home. | |
They are walking home. | |
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Peter lived in China in 1965. | |
I was reading when she arrived. |
Perfect Tenses in English | |
I have lived here since 1987. | |
I have been living here for years. | |
We had been to see her several times before she visited us. | |
He had been watching her for some time when she turned and smiled. | |
We will have arrived in the States by the time you get this letter. | |
By the end of your course, you will have been studying for five years. |
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They will go to Italy next week. | |
I will be travelling by train. |