I teach English to some Polish people - how to explain them tenses?

Adjectival verbs, i.e. "verbal adjectives" however constitute yet another type of gerundial construction which exists in certain languages, but is not of course guaranteed a literal translation into the other language.

In fact, "the dog which is running" is, strictly speaking, not a gerund either, but rather a present progressive of "run"-:))). A true gerund might be "Running down the street, the dog finally caught up with its master."

Right, my mistakes just confirms that English tenses is a complicated matter for Poles :-)
I should have used 'already' instead of 'yet'.


Yes, I know. I just wanted to find anything that is just a little similar to them in Polish to start with.

Cinek

That's ok cinek, I wasn't trying to criticise. The juz/jeszcze thing was confusing for me until a girlfriend used them at certain appropriate times.... ;)

Yes, switching from "yet" to "already" does make a big difference to your examples. Thank you.