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16 January
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I wonder why the present continuous tense is being used here instead of any other tenses.
I wonder why the present continuous tense is being used here instead of any other tenses.
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We could also say
“I won’t eat those seeds” but using the present continuous tense here doesn’t change a lot. It’s just another way we say this sort of phrase.
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A: eat those seeds
B: I’m not eating those seeds
It just makes sense haha I’m not sure how to explain it. You can use either tense
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- English (US)
- Urdu Near fluent
We could also say
“I won’t eat those seeds” but using the present continuous tense here doesn’t change a lot. It’s just another way we say this sort of phrase.
Like
A: eat those seeds
B: I’m not eating those seeds
It just makes sense haha I’m not sure how to explain it. You can use either tense
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- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
@Zacharias00 So I can use this phrase if I’m refusing to do something somebody has asked me to do?
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- Urdu Near fluent
- Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
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