1. <span>That company has been making surfboards since the 1960s. - <u>present perfect progressive</u> (present perfect of the verb to be = have/has been + verb + ing)
2. </span><span>Hunter had been playing a video game when his computer crashed. - <u>past perfect progressive</u> (past perfect of the verb to be = had been + verb + ing)
3. </span><span>As of next month, my best friend and I will have known each other for 12 years. - there is a mistake in options here, the correct answer is <u>future perfect</u>, not future perfect progressive (that would be will have knowing). </span>
Answer:
The theme is universal - we all want to make things sound better than they are. That's why when someone asks you "Does this dress make me look fat?" you always say no, even if it does. We want the world to sound better because if we really focused on how bad the world is then no one would want to live in it. But not all writing does make things sound better than they actually are. Some writing is really depressing and makes things sound as bad or worse than they are.
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You could calculate them because it would help you a lot faster
