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Hi! Can someone tell me if the following two sentences are the same?
1.He is good.
2.He is being good.
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23 May 2011
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amyi
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Hello there. For me, the two sentences are not quite the same.
1) He is good. The boy is always well-behaved, it �s part of his character.
2) He is being good. The boy is behaving well at the moment, but this isn �t necessarily always the case. The use of the continuous present here indicates that we are talking about an action which is happening right now.
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23 May 2011
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sirhaj
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I agree with amyi
1. He is good: means he is a nice person or could it mean that he is good in what he does.
2. He is being good: means the person is behaving well at that time, he probably does not behave like that in some other time.
Sirhajwan
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23 May 2011
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2266
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Thanks a lot, Amyi and Sirhajwan.
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24 May 2011
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