THE PAST CONTINUOUS
The Past Continuous
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THE PAST SIMPLE
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THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS
The Present Continuous is one of the two present tenses in English.
PRESENT SIMPLE
Part of Speech: The Verb – The Present Simple.
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“The Little Black Boy”, by William Blake
Textual Analysis From Songs of Innocence (1789) My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but oh my soul is white! White as … Continue reading “The Little Black Boy”, by William Blake
PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS: THE DURATION FORM
The Duration Form is the last piece of the puzzling present perfect tenses. It’s meant to stress the effects that an action starting in the past has on the present, it can be stressed from the starting point with “Since”, or how long it lasts with “For”.
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS
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PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE
Present Perfect Simple: a mind boggling verb tense for Italians, it’s actually less complicated than it might appear. Just think out of the box: it’s not how recent the past action has taken place, but wether it has effects on the present as well.
The Puritan Age and John Milton
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Video Lesson n. 2 – Excerpts Taken from “Othello”, W. Shakespeare
Reading and anlysis of three important moments of the tragedy that will climax in Desdemona’s murder, one of the most famous literary femicides underlining women’s subordinate role in society then as today.
Video Lesson n. 1 – Excerpts Taken From “Othello”, W. Shakespeare
Reading and anlysis of three important moments of the tragedy that will climax in Desdemona’s murder, one of the most famous literary femicides underlining women’s subordinate role in society then as today.
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