Re: erg/abs; verbs.

Mangiat wrote:
> Surely not a good example: here's one better(?):
>
> Tonight I'm going to the cinema -
>
> the structure is the present continuous, but what I'm describing is a future
> action (is it right? If not, my English teacher has thaught me false things!
Ah, okay.  That's a perfectly legal sentence, but given out of context,
"I'm going" would be interpreted as present, it usually requires a
time-expression like "tonight" or "tomorrow" to refer to future events.

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