Peter TS #6

Abdullah for some reason stopped communicating with me, and I had to find a new adult tutee. Raul, thankfully, agreed to participate in my remaining tutoring hours. On Monday 24 April, Raul and I met at Strozier library. He bought along a binder containing material from his CIES classes. He told me that he was having trouble with verb tenses, specifically the present-perfect. I sat with him and explained what the present consists of: a past participle with "has" or "have." It designates action which began in the past but which continues into the present or the effect of which still continues. We thought up example sentences together. One was, ‘Peter has lived in Tallahassee for four years.’ He seemed to have trouble with the –ed suffix, and was wondering why he couldn’t use –ing. The reason you use –ed, I said, is because this is not the present perfect continuous, in which case, one would say, ‘Peter has been living in Tallahassee for four years.’