[etni] Re: etni Digest V10 #66
- From: David Reid <reidnomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:45:53 +0200
Hallo, all,
re: the posting of Ilana Rosansky (received on the 10th of March), who
states that it is clear how little one uses the present progressive, and to
check it one can do a count..... I'm not sure she actually did this. Try,
for example, taking a verb in the present progressive tense, put it in your
search engine, and count. For example, I put "am doing" in a Google search,
and within 0.11 seconds it came up with about 656,000,000 results. With "is
doing" it came up with about 1,140,000,000 results in 0.13 seconds; with
"are doing", about 1,100,000,000 results in 0.11 seconds, and so forth. So
it is a little early to hold the funeral on the present progressive.
David Reid
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