Re: Rosetta Stone Online, conscript jokes
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 8, 2001, 2:07 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> I'm still not quite sure how "hon o yonde imasu"
> is different from "hon o yomimasu" (?)--is the former progressive and the
> other plain present, or something like that? I'll have to check my
> grammar sometime.
As I understand it, hon o yondeimasu emphasizes that the reading is
going on at the present time. Hon o yomimasu could be habitual or
future, but hon o yondemasu can only be present.
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