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	Comments on: Why &#8220;keep doing&#8221; is present simple and not continuous	</title>
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		By: Phil Williams		</title>
		<link>https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29583</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2020 13:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29573&quot;&gt;Jason&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Jason,
Ah good observation - this article was framed to specifically address the present tense use of &quot;keep doing&quot;, but it can be used in the past or future too. In your example, that is the future &quot;going to&quot; form of &quot;keep doing&quot;, so &quot;to be going to keep doing&quot; ([to be]+[going to]+[infinitive]+[doing]). As per the article, it has a future simple use, to explain a timeless continuing action.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29573" data-wpel-link="internal">Jason</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Jason,<br />
Ah good observation &#8211; this article was framed to specifically address the present tense use of &#8220;keep doing&#8221;, but it can be used in the past or future too. In your example, that is the future &#8220;going to&#8221; form of &#8220;keep doing&#8221;, so &#8220;to be going to keep doing&#8221; ([to be]+[going to]+[infinitive]+[doing]). As per the article, it has a future simple use, to explain a timeless continuing action.</p>
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		By: Jason		</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I came across this curious one. I can&#039;t figure out what tense it is:

&quot;we’re going to keep flourishing&quot;
 
If &quot;keep doing&quot; is present simple, what is &quot;going to keep doing&quot;?

Thanks!!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across this curious one. I can&#8217;t figure out what tense it is:</p>
<p>&#8220;we’re going to keep flourishing&#8221;</p>
<p>If &#8220;keep doing&#8221; is present simple, what is &#8220;going to keep doing&#8221;?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
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		By: Phil Williams		</title>
		<link>https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29504</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29503&quot;&gt;Abdullah Ahmed&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Abdullah,
You are welcome, thanks for the message. At face value, that dialogue looks technically fine; there may be a little confusion as the &quot;yes&quot; is in agreement to the statement about her nerves, not an answer to the question &quot;is she okay&quot; (as the suggestion is no, she&#039;s not), but it does make sense. The thing I would suggest is inaccurate, though, is the use of &quot;nervous&quot;, which many learners mistake for meaning something like &quot;angry&quot; (as it is similar in some languages); &quot;she keeps arguing&quot; would suggest that kind of angry/combative aspect which isn&#039;t really in agreement with &quot;nervous&quot; which would be more shy/afraid. Though still, not impossible!
I hope this helps,

Phil]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29503" data-wpel-link="internal">Abdullah Ahmed</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Abdullah,<br />
You are welcome, thanks for the message. At face value, that dialogue looks technically fine; there may be a little confusion as the &#8220;yes&#8221; is in agreement to the statement about her nerves, not an answer to the question &#8220;is she okay&#8221; (as the suggestion is no, she&#8217;s not), but it does make sense. The thing I would suggest is inaccurate, though, is the use of &#8220;nervous&#8221;, which many learners mistake for meaning something like &#8220;angry&#8221; (as it is similar in some languages); &#8220;she keeps arguing&#8221; would suggest that kind of angry/combative aspect which isn&#8217;t really in agreement with &#8220;nervous&#8221; which would be more shy/afraid. Though still, not impossible!<br />
I hope this helps,</p>
<p>Phil</p>
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		By: Abdullah Ahmed		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 08:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hello there Mr.Phil.
I&#039;m so grateful to your magnificent explanation, as it clarifies it now.
And I do have one question actually. 
So I have dialogue that i need to explain what is wrong with it and why, but actually I can&#039;t really find the mistake. 
‘Is Jessica ok? She seems so nervous.’
 ‘Yes, she keeps arguing with all her classmates.’]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello there Mr.Phil.<br />
I&#8217;m so grateful to your magnificent explanation, as it clarifies it now.<br />
And I do have one question actually.<br />
So I have dialogue that i need to explain what is wrong with it and why, but actually I can&#8217;t really find the mistake.<br />
‘Is Jessica ok? She seems so nervous.’<br />
 ‘Yes, she keeps arguing with all her classmates.’</p>
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		By: Phil Williams		</title>
		<link>https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29230</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29229&quot;&gt;jamie&lt;/a&gt;.

Hi Jamie, in this case your meaning would be to keep a trait (something) rather than keep doing an action. The more appropriate form would be the phrasal verb &#039;keep up&#039; (to maintain): &quot;I am keeping up my determination.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-29229" data-wpel-link="internal">jamie</a>.</p>
<p>Hi Jamie, in this case your meaning would be to keep a trait (something) rather than keep doing an action. The more appropriate form would be the phrasal verb &#8216;keep up&#8217; (to maintain): &#8220;I am keeping up my determination.&#8221;</p>
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		By: jamie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2020 03:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-28076&quot;&gt;León&lt;/a&gt;.

Then  can I say &quot;I am keeing my determination&quot;??
Is it right sentence??]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-28076" data-wpel-link="internal">León</a>.</p>
<p>Then  can I say &#8220;I am keeing my determination&#8221;??<br />
Is it right sentence??</p>
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		By: Phil Williams		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-28076&quot;&gt;León&lt;/a&gt;.

That&#039;s great, I&#039;m glad it helped!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://englishlessonsbrighton.co.uk/keep-doing-present-simple-continous/#comment-28076" data-wpel-link="internal">León</a>.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s great, I&#8217;m glad it helped!</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2019 16:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am giving some English lessons to adults and this doubt often comes up. I have always had trouble explaining why it&#039;s &quot;I like reading&quot; and not &quot;i like read&quot;, for example- Now that I took the time to actually Google it, I found your explanation really useful, thanks for sharing!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am giving some English lessons to adults and this doubt often comes up. I have always had trouble explaining why it&#8217;s &#8220;I like reading&#8221; and not &#8220;i like read&#8221;, for example- Now that I took the time to actually Google it, I found your explanation really useful, thanks for sharing!</p>
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