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Phrase: Pay cash | Present vs past
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When are your parents getting back from... #1 (permalink) Thu Aug 20, 2009 0:31 am   When are your parents getting back from...
 

Hello everybody,

Is sentence below present continuous tense?

"When are your parents getting back from the Philippines?"

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When are your parents getting back from... #2 (permalink) Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:55 am   When are your parents getting back from...
 

Hi,
No!Here "Be+ING" was used for the future arrangements:
Are you meeting Bill tomorrow?
Regards,
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When are your parents getting back from... #3 (permalink) Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:59 am   When are your parents getting back from...
 

Hi Rosario,

The tense is 'present continuous' but the use as Morteza says, is future.

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When are your parents getting back from... #4 (permalink) Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:40 am   When are your parents getting back from...
 

Thank you so much Alan and Morteza.

I have already understood.
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