dilodi83
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- Joined
- Aug 27, 2006
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- Italian
- Home Country
- Italy
- Current Location
- Italy
A: Where are you staying at the moment in Rome?
B: Well, I had been staying/stayed in a B&B so far, but in Jenuary I'm going to change and I'd like to hire a private room somewhere else, because I don't like to stay for long in a B&B.
I have two questions for these sentences?
1) Does sentence B make sense? Do you understand the meaning of this sentence or would you say it in a different way?
2) Which tense do you think is more correct between the two in bold to express that for the two weeks before the question A is asked I stayed in a B&B (so, I'd like to underline the duration of this past action) and then I'd like to change the accomodation?
Do the past perfect continuous and the simple past express different meanings in this sentence?
Thanks so much for your help.
B: Well, I had been staying/stayed in a B&B so far, but in Jenuary I'm going to change and I'd like to hire a private room somewhere else, because I don't like to stay for long in a B&B.
I have two questions for these sentences?
1) Does sentence B make sense? Do you understand the meaning of this sentence or would you say it in a different way?
2) Which tense do you think is more correct between the two in bold to express that for the two weeks before the question A is asked I stayed in a B&B (so, I'd like to underline the duration of this past action) and then I'd like to change the accomodation?
Do the past perfect continuous and the simple past express different meanings in this sentence?
Thanks so much for your help.