Present Continuous or Present Perfect? There is a task in my Grammar book - put the verbs in brackets into the correct form. And there is a sentence: "We____(stay) here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". My version: 1. "We're staying here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". My version is so, because for my prospective, the action started a few days ago, it's still happening around present moment, and it'll be happening some time in the futire (maybe several days). But, in the key book for this task the sentence build as below: 2. "We have stayed here for nealy a week. I hope you'are not thinking of leaving". Which of sentences are more natural for the native English? Can anyone help me to determine what's wrong, why I've was wrong?

Whether "did" or without at the Interrogative form? In my Grammar book there is a task to put the sentence into a correct form. And there is a sentence: 1. "Who______(invent) the telephone?". My version of sentence is: 2. "Who did invent the telephone?" But in the keys to this task the sentence looks as below: 3. "Who invented the telephone?' Can anybody explain me, why in the interrogative form of the key sentence 3 it doesn't use the auxiliary verb "did"?

These or Those in Past Indefinite? There is a sentence - "You heard from me one of ______(these/those) days" What is rightly to use in the sentence above, THESE or THOSE?

Future Indefinite or Future Continuous? What sounds more natural for english speakers? There is a task in my Grammar book. It's sounds - "put the verb in brackets into the correct form, Future Indefinite or Future Continuous. There is a sentence: "A few words and they ______(quarral) again." My version is: 1. A few words and they will quarrel again. But version in task's keys is apart, as showed below: 2. A few words and they will be quarrelling again. What sentence sounds more natural?

How to resolve the problem of identifying the stative verbs? In my Gramma book I have a task to put the verbs in brackets into the correct form (Past Continuous or Past Indefenite). There is a sentence: "I ________(look) out the window. The car ________(stand) where I ________(leave) it" My version is: "I looked out the window. The car was standing where I left it" But my version is wrong, and in the keys to this task correct sentence looks like below: "I looked out the window. The car stood where I left it" If I undestand rightly, I have a problem with identifying stative verbs, so I confuse stative verbse and active verbs. And I incorrectly put the stative verb "stand" into the Continuous form. Can somebody confirm my mistake? Am I right? So, If It's true, can somebody give me advice how exactly identify the stative verbs? Maybe there's a some efficient trick/method to recognize and separate stative verbs?

Can I use Past Continuous? In my Gramma book there is a task showed below: "Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form" There is a sentence: Bob_________(take) a nap while I_______(paint) the ceiling. My version is: Bob was taking a nap while I was painting the ceiling. But in the keys to this task sentence forms like below: "Bob took a nap while I was painting the ceiling." May my version, mentioned above, be valid? My thoughts are directed as following: Bob was performing/doing his action (sleep) during some event (when I was painting the ceiling). So, we have a temporary action taking place at a given moment in the past, and it fairly to use Past Continuous in both clauses of considered sentence. Am I right?

Have or having? May the verb "HAVE" be used in the Continuous Form? In my Gramma Book there is task - "Put the verb into the correct form" They_____(be) in the cafe. They_______(have) their breakfast. I put the verbs as below: They are in the cafe. They have their breakfast. But, in the keys to this task this sentence is showed as below: They are in the cafe. They are having their breakfast. Till now, I thought that verb "have" can't be use at the Continuous Form, because in my Grammar book there is an exeption for this verb in Present Continuous Topic. This exeption says "Verbs denoting abstract ralations - to be, TO HAVE, to contain...etc." don't use in the Continuous Form. Also there is addition to this statement - "the groups of verbs do not express a process.". Also, on YouTube I saw the lesson about verbs, where it was said that verbs devides on tow groups -- state verbs and action verbs, and state verbs never used in the Continuous Form. So, is it mean that in my sentence the verb "have" is not state verb? Maybe expression "have breakfast" is like idiom?

Why it should be use Present Continuous instead Present Indefinit? I have the task at my Cramma book, showed below: Put the verbs at the correct forms - "Whenever I call at the Smith's home they ______(play) cards. I realy think they _____(play) every night." At the keys book sentence looks - "Whenever I call at the Smith's home they are playing cards. I realy think they play every night." Why we put "they are playing card" instead following: "Whenever I call at the Smith's home they play cards. I realy think they play every night." The action is obviously repeating "Whenever I call at the Smith's home". Also, the action is not around the present moment, or not not completed. So, following all rules it might be Present Simple.

Why Present Continouos instead Present Indefinite? In my Grammar taskbook I have a task to wright down the correct form of verbs in the brackets. "- Can you ride a bicycle? - No, but I _____(learn). My brother ______(teach) me." Firstly I put the verbs at Present Indefinite, see below: "- Can you ride a bicycle? - No, but I learn. My brother teaches me." But according of keys to this exercise it shoud be done like below: "- Can you ride a bicycle? - No, but I'm learning. My brother is teaching me." My thoughts is that the action is not happening at the present moment, most probably it's a repeated customary action. So, according the rule of my Crammar book when it's using repeated customary action it should be use Present Indefinite. Can somebody explain me, why in this case we use Present Continouos?