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    The document provides examples of correcting incorrect assumptions about past events or situations by using different verb tenses. For each event, it gives the incorrect assumption and question in the present perfect tense, followed by the correction using simple present with "anymore", or past tense to indicate the event is no longer true. It provides 7 examples covering events like working at a phone company, being married, living in a certain location, and more, demonstrating how to clarify that a past situation is no longer ongoing.

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    The document provides examples of correcting incorrect assumptions about past events or situations by using different verb tenses. For each event, it gives the incorrect assumption and question in the present perfect tense, followed by the correction using simple present with "anymore", or past tense to indicate the event is no longer true. It provides 7 examples covering events like working at a phone company, being married, living in a certain location, and more, demonstrating how to clarify that a past situation is no longer ongoing.

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    How Long Have You Worked at The Phone Company

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    The document provides examples of correcting incorrect assumptions about past events or situations by using different verb tenses. For each event, it gives the incorrect assumption and question in the present perfect tense, followed by the correction using simple present with "anymore", or past tense to indicate the event is no longer true. It provides 7 examples covering events like working at a phone company, being married, living in a certain location, and more, demonstrating how to clarify that a past situation is no longer ongoing.

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    The speaker incorrectly thinks the event or situation continues into the present. It doesnt.

    In #1, use present perfect. In #2, use simple present + n'tanymore. In #3, use the verb in parentheses in simple past + last year. a. Event: work at the phone company a. #1 How long have you worked at the phone company? b. #2 Actually, I dont work there anymore. #3 (quit) I quit last year. 1. Event: work as a seamstress a. #1 How long b. #2 Actually, I a. #3 (get laid off) b. Im sorry to hear that. Have you found another job? 2. Event: be married a. #1 How long b. #2 Actually, #3 (get divorced) 3. Event: study English at City College a. #1 How long b. #2 a. #3 (stop attending classes) b. Oh, really? Why? 4. Event: live in the Sunset District a. #1 b. #2 #3 (move to Daly City) a. Oh, you did? How do you like it? 5. Event: be retired a. #1 b. #2 #3 (start working again) a. Oh, really? What kind of work are you doing? 6. Event: join the gym a. #1 How long have you ____________ to the gym? (Don't use joined. The verb changes.) b. #2 Actually, I #3 (stop going) a. Is that right? 7. Event: get a dog a. #1 How long have you ____________ a dog? (Don't use gotten. The verb changes.) b. #2 Actually, #3 (have to move), I _________________, so I gave it to my sister. a. Oh, I see. Do you miss having one?

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