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Forum: English Questions Aug 6th, 2017, 12:15 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: Present Simple and Continuous with some words

Yes - try entering "nowadays" into a concordancer eg here (http://lextutor.ca/conc/eng/). You'll see the use of simple aspect is far more common. In fact I had to search Google to find good examples...
Forum: English Questions Aug 3rd, 2017, 06:52 am
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Posted By susan53
Re: Present Simple and Continuous with some words

No - it's fine. It all depends on the speaker's perception of the event. There are lots of ocasions when simple and continuous aspect are both possible - consider :

My leg hurts.
My leg's...
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