ask for/asking for 的問題

"who are you asking for"

"are" and "asking" should go together, and clearly you'll see it's in present continuous tense
present continuous tense refers to the use of "verb-to-be + verb-ing", as a way to express an action in progress(which means, the action you're doing at a certain moment, have started but haven't finished)

who are you asking for is a question to ask who you are looking for at the moment, therefore it should be in present continuous tense.


while, "who are you ask for" indeed makes no sense, as it is not grammatically correct. we don't have "verb-to-be + verb" this combination, instead what we have usually is "do/does/did + verb", or moral verbs+ verb(i.e. can/may/should these words)
and this is the use of present simple tense.
We (do) ask for Amy every morning.

do you understand now?



2009-07-02 11:17:32 補充：
sorry, i mean "modal verbs" :P not moral..=,= i'm silly..

who are you asking for?