"Since you have taken on the work, you are having to do it."
Is it acceptable?
Perhaps I was being over-permissive*. I'd never use it.As Bob said: 'It's just (arguably) acceptable.'
Don't use it.
Any examples?some clever-Dick often thinks up an extreme and improbable context for just those words. ;-)
Note that the present continuous is used much more frequently in Indian English than in any other variant.
It means you have to do it, and you have to do it now, and probably over a period of time.If "I am having to do" is a correct formation, what does it mean, could you please tell.
There are many competent respondents to this thread who could explain this. Why am I having to do it?emsr2d2 said "a temporary obligation" and Raymott said "a period of time", should it be a period of short time?