Present tenses

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Explore the foundations of English grammar with this introduction to present tenses. Learn the difference between the present simple (for habits and routines) and the present continuous (for actions happening right now). 

Welcome to this English grammar lesson about the present perfect continuous tense (also called the present perfect progressive). This is another very common English verb tense, and it is helpful to know it when you want to talk about things that started in the past, and are st ...

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Lesson 27 teaches the present continuous tense.