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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
<span class="gd"><span style="color:#5B1094">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></p>



<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:<span class="gi"> LL-L "Grammar" 2011.04.15 (01) [AF-EN-NL]</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I could
imagine a small child just learning to talk saying something like “I eat
now.”  Otherwise, the simple present is used in cases such as repeated or
habitual action:</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat lunch at
noon.</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat fish on
Fridays.</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat steak
medium rare.</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat French fries
with ketchup.</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat too
much.</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I eat outside
once in a while.</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Kevin Caldwell</span></p>

<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Laurel</span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">, MD</span></p>

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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">From: Paul
Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank"><span style="color:navy">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</span></a>></span></p>

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"Grammar" 2011.04.14 (05) [NL]</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Very few modern forms of English in my experience would use "I
eat now".  Old English and Middle English use it; it sometimes
continues into the 18th C. Otherwise, unless somebody is trying to be
deliberately old fashioned, you won't hear it. There may be dialects that do,
but I've never heard them.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: navy;">Paul</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: Hannelore Hinz
<hannehinz><br>
Subject: LL-L "grammar" 2011.04.14 (05) [NL]<br>
<br>
Piet schreew an Roger:<br>
<br>
               
        <span style="color:#3366FF">How to
translate properly the difference between I eat now, I'm eating now.<br>
<br>
</span><span style="color:black">Wenn ick schriew, denn schriew ick.<br>
<br>
Present simple: I write, Present progressive: I am writing. Dor bün ick jüst
mit taugang'.<br>
<br>
Ick denk, 'I am eating' brukt nich 'now', wiel diss' Taustand je jüst in'n
Oogenblick besteiht, odder wist du di sülben äten (upäten).<br>
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Hartlich.<br>
<br>
Hanne</span></p>

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