GeneD
Senior Member
- Joined
- Mar 18, 2017
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Russian
- Home Country
- Belarus
- Current Location
- Belarus
Frank: I heard you're taking a Spanish class at the community college.
Tom: Yeah, I'm going to go (I'm going) to Guatemala next spring and I thought knowing a little Spanish would make the trip easier.
Frank: I'm going to visit (I'm visiting)my brother in Marseilles next year. Maybe I should take a French class.
Tom: I have a course catalog in the other room. I'll go get it, and we can see whether or not they're offering a French course next semester.
(taken from https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs19.htm)
There is no such an option as the present continuous in the online exercise, but I think it's a good idea to clear the thing up anyway. Am I mistaken saying that the present continuous is possible in the second and third sentences? In this case, there would be a slight shift in meaning, wouldn't there? Tom and Frank unlikely will change their minds. Do I see it right?
Tom: Yeah, I'm going to go (I'm going) to Guatemala next spring and I thought knowing a little Spanish would make the trip easier.
Frank: I'm going to visit (I'm visiting)my brother in Marseilles next year. Maybe I should take a French class.
Tom: I have a course catalog in the other room. I'll go get it, and we can see whether or not they're offering a French course next semester.
(taken from https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs19.htm)
There is no such an option as the present continuous in the online exercise, but I think it's a good idea to clear the thing up anyway. Am I mistaken saying that the present continuous is possible in the second and third sentences? In this case, there would be a slight shift in meaning, wouldn't there? Tom and Frank unlikely will change their minds. Do I see it right?
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