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du jour brought to you by the present progressive because

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the absent progressive will never showed up All right we'll

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check out the following passage We are frankly i'm checking

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now that we're going in just to prove what a

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big loss here on a he's doing it right All

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right we're done what's The best way to rewrite sentence

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seven and hear the potential Answer me probably All right

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Well the original sense is awkward and uses the incorrect

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tense of to come Picasso is probably the first one

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to be coming to mind for most people Police is

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saying that people are thinking of picasso in the present

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tense He's not predicting that they'll be thinking of him

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in the future Her psychic powers were only just aren't

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that great the choice d makes the same mistakes the

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original sentence and it's an easy elimination and we're onto

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the next one All right option a is no good

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either At least needs a verb That's in the simple

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present tense but is coming is in the present progressive

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which is a tense we use to describe something that's

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happening now and will continue into the future again Elise

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is totally in the now with this sentence got it

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reminds us of a meditation seminar went to last week

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Alright well lookie here Choice See Does the exact same

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thing is option a so buddy take a hike way

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Don't need any present progressives Well at long last we've

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come to answer beat this one gets it right by

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using the verb is which is in the simple present

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tense For now the future is a distant concern For

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release until time traveling cyborg returned The collective leases debt

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and she'll have bigger problems than a few grammatical mistake

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