Is this present continuous or present simple? “There are children playing on the street.”
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“There are children playing on the street.”
Tense-wise, how would you categorize this?
Should this be accepted as an example for the present continuous tense? My first instinct was no, but the omitted “who are” is throwing me off.
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“There are children playing on the street.”
Tense-wise, how would you categorize this?
Should this be accepted as an example for the present continuous tense? My first instinct was no, but the omitted “who are” is throwing me off.
grammar tenses present-tense
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“There are children playing on the street.”
Tense-wise, how would you categorize this?
Should this be accepted as an example for the present continuous tense? My first instinct was no, but the omitted “who are” is throwing me off.
grammar tenses present-tense
edited 1 hour ago
Laurel
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asked 16 hours ago
rery
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“There are children playing on the street.”
Tense-wise, how would you categorize this?
Should this be accepted as an example for the present continuous tense? My first instinct was no, but the omitted “who are” is throwing me off.
grammar tenses present-tense
grammar tenses present-tense
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Laurel
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asked 16 hours ago
rery
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Laurel
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asked 16 hours ago
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Laurel
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Laurel
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"There are children" - present simple, if "there" is the subject, and then "children playing on the street" is a participle construction.
Whereas, "Childrean are playing there, on the street" would be present progressive. That usually requires a tense marker like "currently". The "there" might fill that role. At least it is certainly not the subject of a SVO; so, "are children ..." is a V2-Inversion and it uses present progressive (or continuous).
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So does that mean that the sentence mentioned in my question is present simple?
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"There are children" - present simple, if "there" is the subject, and then "children playing on the street" is a participle construction.
Whereas, "Childrean are playing there, on the street" would be present progressive. That usually requires a tense marker like "currently". The "there" might fill that role. At least it is certainly not the subject of a SVO; so, "are children ..." is a V2-Inversion and it uses present progressive (or continuous).
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"There are children" - present simple, if "there" is the subject, and then "children playing on the street" is a participle construction.
Whereas, "Childrean are playing there, on the street" would be present progressive. That usually requires a tense marker like "currently". The "there" might fill that role. At least it is certainly not the subject of a SVO; so, "are children ..." is a V2-Inversion and it uses present progressive (or continuous).
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"There are children" - present simple, if "there" is the subject, and then "children playing on the street" is a participle construction.
Whereas, "Childrean are playing there, on the street" would be present progressive. That usually requires a tense marker like "currently". The "there" might fill that role. At least it is certainly not the subject of a SVO; so, "are children ..." is a V2-Inversion and it uses present progressive (or continuous).
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"There are children" - present simple, if "there" is the subject, and then "children playing on the street" is a participle construction.
Whereas, "Childrean are playing there, on the street" would be present progressive. That usually requires a tense marker like "currently". The "there" might fill that role. At least it is certainly not the subject of a SVO; so, "are children ..." is a V2-Inversion and it uses present progressive (or continuous).
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So does that mean that the sentence mentioned in my question is present simple?
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15 hours ago
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So does that mean that the sentence mentioned in my question is present simple?
– rery
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So does that mean that the sentence mentioned in my question is present simple?
– rery
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So does that mean that the sentence mentioned in my question is present simple?
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