With Always? Present ing or present s?

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With Always? Present ing or present s?
Message de orhellia posté le 11-10-2009 à 15:55:48 (S | E | F)
Hello everybody...

I'm revising my english and I have a question about present.
In fact, I looked many website to learn english and sometimes they don't say the same thing about the present ing.

One say, with "always", I should use present ing as: "My fiend is always interrupting me when I study"
The video ( Exercice d'anglais n°405) says, "use present continuous for describe repeated actions"

but in this website: Lien Internet


They say: "use present simple with : often, always, never, usually, etc...

Can you help me please?

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Réponse: With Always? Present ing or present s? de seb06000, postée le 11-10-2009 à 16:02:30 (S | E)
Hi!

In fact, you can say both but the meaning is different, look:

He always eats ( plain declaration, simply enonciating a fact => neutrality)

vs

He is always eating ( the enonciator shows his disagreement, meaning => he is eating a lot, it's unhealthy


look at your sentence:

"My fiend is always interrupting me when I study" => it means that the person is fed up, he/she can't study because someone is interupting him/her. The ING form expresses that anger.

Does it make sense?

Regards

sebastien

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Réponse: With Always? Present ing or present s? de orhellia, postée le 12-10-2009 à 10:20:40 (S | E)
Hi Seb, thank you very much, I understand your explication explanation , it's very kind of you. Have a good day. Tchao


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Modifié par lucile83 le 12-10-2009 12:04

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