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While I would say that tenses are a strong suit for me, studying the uses of the different tenses has been very helpful. I have realized that at times, tenses reveal things about the intent of the speaker rather than necessarily a logical statement about what happened or is happening. For example, while the present perfect and present perfect continuous tense are very similar, and sometimes seem interchangeable, there is a difference between them in that the present perfect tense focuses on action being completed (at least, in one of its use cases), the present perfect continuous tense focuses on the process of the action. The strange thing is that, in ordinary speech, they can often be interchanged, and as a native speaker, I would assume there's no difference between them. Now that I know otherwise, I think I will be watching my own speech and the speech of other native English speakers around me to think about the reasons why we use the tenses that we do.
