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If a person is commenting on the phone what they are doing while speaking which tense should be used?
1 I am going up stairs. I am heading to your room. I am opening the door. I am looking for the keys.
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2 I go upstairs. I head to your room. Etc.
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Ivan Fadeev wrote:If a person is commenting on the phone what they are doing while speaking which tense should be used?
1 I am going up stairs. I am heading to your room. I am opening the door. I am looking for the keys.
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2 I go upstairs. I head to your room. Etc. Which tense did you use in your question?
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Present continuous or present simple.
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Ivan Fadeev wrote:If a person is commenting on the phone what they are doing while speaking which tense should be used?
1 I am going up stairs. I am heading to your room. I am opening the door. I am looking for the keys.
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2 I go upstairs. I head to your room. Etc. The first one.
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In your question, you used "is commenting", "are doing".
You didn't use the present simple in your question - there is no reason to think the person on the phone would use the present simple, either.
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At the same time commentators comment on sport games using the present simple. So, maybe it's also possible?
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