atw: Re: Particular past tense

Ah, yes. The power of democracy. Never mind the facts; a sufficiently large
number of the ignorant can always turn the tide.

I think that's why we've been stuck with John Howard for . . . what seems
like forever!



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>
> 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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