PASSAGE
Sentences chosen for analysis are evidenced in yellow.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading
about six simultaneously. I don't want to BE any of the characters. I don't
care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search
through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have
something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been
there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
ANALYSIS
Phrase
Form
Use
I have a pile of nice ones
Simple present-Active form:
Subject (personal pronoun) + have
(Verb- Simple present) + a pile
(Direct object-article/noun))
To talk about present real
situations/to talk about routine
actions.
I’m reading about six simultaneously.
Present continuous (progressive
form):
Subject (personal pronoun) + am (be,
Auxiliary verb) + Present participle
(main verb in ing-form) + about
(Preposition) + six (Direct object) +
Adverb (manner).
To talk about actions happening
now, or in a period considered in the
present.
They have been waiting for me
Present perfect continuous: Subject
(personal pronoun) + have been
(Auxiliary verb-Present perfect) +
Indirect object (preposition/personal
pronoun).
Silvio Pilone-23/May/2013.
To talk about actions which started
happening in the past
without interruption and continue in
the present.