Stupid English class

I remember why I hated English class or English language so much back when I was in Thailand.

I took a look at a friend’s English grammar book(which is in Thai.), and it was horrible, such a bad way of learning English. There’s a lot of explaining rather than examples or contexts. It’s so hard to understand how to use grammar if you didn’t have any good example to look at.

Here’s one of the lesson in the book:

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Present Perfect (Have + V3)
I have run for 30 kilometers.
Present perfect tense emphasizes on the result NOT the action.

Present Perfect Continuous (Have + been + Ving)
I have been running.
This type of tense emphasizes on the action NOT the result.

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What kind of BS was that? The examples were bad. The explanation was confusing. And we were forced to remember something we didn’t even need to know. (This type of tense is called “present perfect continuous endless loop…” such and such.)

That’s the main reason why I have bad grammar. yea… blame it all on the English teachers.

Ok… I did a search and I found a better tutorial on the subject here and here.