Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Cambio di tempo verbale da domanda a risposta

Ciao a tutto il NG,
vorrei sapere, e magari il quesito è un po' banale, se posso rispondere ad
una domanda posta ad esempio con il present perfect con il present perfect
continous:
- How long have you lived in this flat? (l'interlocutore usa il Present
perfect perchè pensa sia uno stato permanente).
- I've been living here for two months until I'll find a new flat. (chi
risponde usa il present perfect continous in quanto il vivere in quella casa
è uno stato temporaneo).
Quindi si può cambiare il tempo verbale della domanda in base alla risposta
che si darà?
Spero di essere stato chiaro
Grazie in anticipo per le eventuali risposte
Ciao
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Ciccio

 è uno stato temporaneo).
The problem is with the verb "find": we don't use the future tense in a
situation like this. "I've been living here for two months until I find a
new flat."
Also:
"I'm only living here until I find a new flat."
"I'll move (or "be moving") from here when I find a new flat.
-- 
This is my opinion of modern, colloquial, *conversational* American
English. 
If you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.

 Yes, you can. Your example is fine (with one exception, noted below.)
Would you say, as Ciccio does (or "as does Ciccio"? Or, of course, "as
Ciccio"), that  "I've lived" and "I've been living" carry two different
meanings? We've already discussed the perfect progressive form of "to live"
and, to the best of my recollection, I gathered that an Englishman is not
likely ever to say "I've been living".
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-- 
"May I come with you to the station?"
"Please, do. I like to go off in style."
(Cold Comfort Farm, the film)

The problem is with the verb "find":
I think the problem is that you cannot use until with the future tense.  Until
needs the present whether the verb is find, get, stumble upon, etc.....It would
be just as incorrect to say "until I will get".
Look here:
http://smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/presadverbs.html
bye
ari

Giò
A man has dreams of walking with giants,
to carve his niche in the edifice of time.
Before the mortar of his zeal
has a chance to congeal
the cup is dashed from his lips,
the flame is snuffed aborning.

likely ever to say "I've been living".
effettivamente la società americana ed anglosassone in generale è
rinomata per cambiare casa un sacco di volte nell'arco della vita...
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Giņ
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 vuole sapere prima per quanto tempo c'ha abitato.
Hai letto nella mente di una persona inventata?
[...]
Ciao, FB
-- 
"Enjoying yourself, Elfine?"
"It's going to be such fun!"
"No, it's going to be amusing or diverting, not such fun, darling."
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it doesn't sound right, to me.
It doesn't sound right to me either, even with until + present.  It still
sounds incorrect.  Somehow the two sentences just don't go together, but I
can't tell you why.  I'd say" I'll be living here a few months until I find a
new flat"
bye
ari

 new flat"
Absolutely right.
The only alternatives would be:
"I lived there for a few months until I found a new flat" (if you've
already moved out) or "I've been living here for a few months, and I'll
stay until I find a new flat".
-- 
Mary

Hai letto nella mente di una persona inventata?
è grammatica. è quello che ha detto.
è come per la differenza tra un uomo povero ed un pover uomo. è la
stessa cosa, ma c'è un'immane differenza. se la intuisci, significa
forse che stai leggendo nella mente della persona fittizia che l'ha
pensato?
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