atw: Re: Particular past tense

Um, some seem to disagree. A Web search on "present perfect continuous" turns up an alleged 110,000 entries. the phrase is popular, at least. 

JH


On 26 Apr 2007, at 10:33 PM, Michael Lewis wrote:


James Hunt:


Well, I'm not anybody's esteemed whatever, but this looks rather like
the present perfect continuous tense . . .


Umm -- sorry, but perfect and continuous are a dichotomy; either it's
finished and done with or it's still going on (from the perspective of
whatever the primary tense is)!

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