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Old March 27, 2017, 09:19 PM
Thomson Thomson is offline
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Originally Posted by poli View Post
The present tense can be ambiguous as you display. You drink water can mean something that you customarily do, or it may mean you currently drink water. In English we most frequently use the present progressive or continuous tense to avoid confusion.

In Spanish, the same is true, but the present progressive is used less. If overused, it sounds foreign.
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