PROGRESSIVE
(Are there any stative verbs here? Do they all represent duration or repetition of actions?)
- The country of the twofold Olympic winner was celebrating its 100th anniversary of independence in 1930 at great expense.
- At about the same time in various towns and cities across America other people were beginning to celebrate a "father's day."
- I am sorry you are having such a hard time in mathematics
- They were sitting solemnly beside one another.
- Norris will take over the position held by Arlene Blank, who is retiring after almost 30 years in central office administration.
- "We somehow skewed our use of the commission, and we 're using it to punish a citizen we don't believe," Whelan said.
- support was starting to erode somewhat, as evidenced by state Rep. Tom Johnson, R-West Chicago.
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PERFECT
(Where are the stative verbs? dynamic verbs? What kinds of time expressions do you see?
no adverb of duration
(no time or length of time mentioned, or a non-specific time like "already" or "recently")
- The long path towards full expansion had been sketched out .
- When he took over the world football federation, the latter, which had been shaken by the I World War, counted 20 members.
- The British had left in unison ...
- A new epoch had begun for world football.
- His successor was Arthur Drewry, who was elected on 9 June 1956, but had already headed FIFA for over half a year on an interim
basis.
- Previously, FIFA had been somewhat conservative ...
- Administrative energy had been concentrated on consolidating and maintaining the status quo.
- The actual address in Zurich has not altered ..
- Over the past 25 years football has not only taken root as the world's major game in an ephemeral world but has also
blossomed in other ranches of society ...
- Football has enveloped whole regions, people and nations
- Since 1930, the 16 tournaments have seen only seven different winners.
- However, the FIFA World Cup has also been punctuated by dramatic upsets that have helped create footballing history.
- It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a
single parent.
- Father's Day has become a day to not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father figure.
- These letters of TR's have been collected in an engaging anthology by Joan Patterson Kerr.
- They .. looked just as if they had come out of a book.
- We have obeyed your orders, we're very glad to say.
- Both have worked for new Superintendent Arthur Culver in Longview, Texas.
- "The board has expressed a desire for change ..
- how do you know you've got the best if you haven't gone through the process?"
- The UI, which had alreadyexpected to have $65 million less to work with in the coming year, learned Monday that Gov. George Ryan
used his veto power to cut the university's funding by another $26.3 million.
- The additional cuts approach the worst-case scenario the university had planned for, Tate said.
- Even before learning of Ryan's new cuts, the UI had expected to cut most pay raises and eliminate about 600 positions at all campuses,
mostly through attrition.
- The city's human relations commission found Rhodes had violated the city's human rights ordinance ..
- "Many arguments have been given for reasons why (the Department of Corrections) should maintain the status quo with their food service
functions,"
- Ryan noted that private prison food service has been successful in other states, in Illinois counties including Champaign, and even in
state facilities.
with adverb of duration
(how long?)
- This victory at the 15st FIFA Congress in Paris elevated Blatter, who had already served FIFA in various positions for 23
years, onto the highest rang in international football.
- Ever since the first tentative competition in Uruguay in 1930, FIFA's flagship has constantly grown in popularity and
prestige.
- The Department of Corrections has had contractual food service at the Joliet prison since the early 1980s and at all the adult
transitional, or work-release, centers, including Urbana Community Correctional Center.
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