C. Simple or Continuous Present tense? 1. You can't see Helen now: she (sleep) 2. She usually (study) in the evenings. 3. What you (wait) for? I (wait) for the bus. 4. He always (borrow) money from me. 5. Cuckoos (not make) nest. ...
Learning to recognize and write thousands of characters thus requires considerably more time compared with learning to write in an alphabetic language. The internal complexity of a Chinese character may be gauged by the number of strokes needed to compose it. Some characters are fairly simple, requi...
2000. The simple and Compound Past in Romance languages. In Tense and Aspect in the Languages of Europe. Edited by Dahl Östen. Berlin: DeGruyter, pp. 403–39. [Google Scholar] 1 The examples in Section 1 belong to the NGLE (2009), pp. 1721–1736. 2 About the use of the PPC ...