Typical German speaker mistakes in English (33)

I often hear these mistakes made by German speakers who are learning English.

They say:  I already do this for several weeks.

The problem here is the tense.  There are a couple of key words / phrases in the sentence which can help us to identify which tense we need.  The key words / phrases are ‘already’ and ‘for several weeks’.

The sense here is of a repeated action which started in the past, is still being done now and will probably continue in the future.

Correction:  I have already been doing this for several weeks.

 

Have fun learning English!

Louise

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