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The sentence with the present progressive speaks for the moment. "So far" could naturally be added to it. Not so with "I have a good time every day."
I am having a good time every day so far!
?* I have a good time every day so far!
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The present continuous can be used for a regular action as well, though.
At 9, I am driving to work every Friday. You can call me on my mobile then.
At 9, I am driving to work every Friday. You can call me on my mobile then.
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I drive to work means that you start driving. It's a different thing.
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I don't really understand what you mean by that.
"I drive to work" means that, habitually, you travel to work by car (and you drive that car yourself).
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Do you see a difference between:
We have lunch at 1.
We are having lunch at 1.
(I never talked about "I drive/I am driving". I talked about "I drive at.../ I am driving at... At least that's what I implied)
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Yes, but I don't see what that has to to with emsr2d2's comment on "I drive to work".
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One is a habitual behavior. Two is (probably) a comment on a specific action.
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Note my changes above.
Both sentences I have numbered "1" refer to habitual actions.
Both sentences I have numbered "2" don't. They refer to a one-off occurrence, the date/time of which is not specified. It could be today, or tomorrow, or a specific date in the future that has already been mentioned.
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Why? You changed my sentence. Mine were
We have lunch at 1.
We are having lunch at 1.
I drive to work at 9 every day.
I am driving to work at 9 every day.
There is no point in modifying the original sentences.
(Actually, the original was
At 9, I am driving to work every Friday. You can call me on my mobile then.
All the rest are an off-shoot of the original)
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No, I didn't. The words I quoted were yours, from post #9. The words "every day" appear nowhere in that post!
I drive to work at 9 every day.
I am driving to work at 9 every day.That's ungrammatical. The present continuous (of most verbs) doesn't work with "every day".
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I am driving to work at 9 every day is grammatical if the reference is to a habit that the speaker wishes to represent as possibly temporary.
I have just started a new job. I have to be at the office by 10 a.m. I am driving to work at 9 every day, but the traffic is killing me. I need to start leaving earlier.
(That's what I meant in my first reply where I said that the sentence I am having a good time every day speaks [of the regularity] for the moment.)
Of course, the present perfect continuous could be used instead: I have been driving to work at 9 every day, but the traffic is killing me.
I have just started a new job. I have to be at the office by 10 a.m. I am driving to work at 9 every day, but the traffic is killing me. I need to start leaving earlier.
(That's what I meant in my first reply where I said that the sentence I am having a good time every day speaks [of the regularity] for the moment.)
Of course, the present perfect continuous could be used instead: I have been driving to work at 9 every day, but the traffic is killing me.
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I'd say 'Every Friday at 9 I'm driving to work. Don't call me on my mobile then because I don't answer it when I'm driving.'.
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