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by muftop
Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:41 am
Forum: Applied Linguistics
Topic: Progressive of "appear"
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Progressive of "appear"

Why is it that we can't use the progressive in ,

"Wong Kar Wai's new film appears to have been a success",

but its use seems to be acceptable in "Wong Kar Wai is appearing at the opening of Cannes Film Festival tonight?"