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English Grammar and Usage Problems => Use and Misuse => Topic started by: Miss Mae on August 29, 2012, 12:41:43 PM

Title: Pinoys in UAE still coping with homesickness
Post by: Miss Mae on August 29, 2012, 12:41:43 PM

What should have been the correct tense?

Many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) (are still trying, still try) to overcome their homesickness even though they have been living for many years in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)?

Title: Re: Pinoys in UAE still coping with homesickness
Post by: Mwita Chacha on August 31, 2012, 06:24:58 PM

I would automatically go for the verb in the present continuous tense ''are still trying to overcome.''