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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
As far as grammar is concerned, many features are present in "proper" Mandarin, but are casually ignored. A good example of this is the difference between the present perfect and present perfect progressive tenses, which many foreigners incorrectly believe don't exist in Chinese, and most Chinese subsequently fail to notice as well.
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That is the first I have heard about this. Can you give an example? Anyway, tenses do not exist in modern Chinese. Past tense is indicated by the addition of some word like before, yesterday, 過 guo, 了 le (both of which indicate that the event is over), only.