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We receive vs we are receiving

Both are correct, but they're used in different contexts. "We receive" is simple present tense, used for general truths or habitual actions. "We are receiving" is present continuous tense, used for actions happening at the moment of speaking or around the current time.
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This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

"We receive"

Use "we receive" in the simple present tense to talk about general truths or habitual actions. It indicates a regular or repeated action.

Examples:

  • We receive a lot of mail every day.
  • As a company, we receive feedback from our customers regularly.
  • We receive training every month to improve our skills.
  • They receive a salary at the end of each month.
  • Do you receive any benefits as part of your job?
  • Therefore, until we receive the reinforcements promised us...
  • If we receive that complaint we will obviously give it very serious attention.
  • We study carefully all the complaints we receive, especially if they involve rights under European Union law.
  • When we receive payment, you shall have your brother.
  • We shall certainly continue to press for answers until we receive something better than mere bureaucratic responses.
  • Will we receive payment appropriate to this honor?
  • No. We receive daily deliveries from different suppliers.
  • We receive the signal to begin the diamond formation.
  • We receive no minutes of these meetings.
  • We receive more information in an hour.
  • We receive around 5000 requests per year and we have 80 people working on them.
  • We receive shipments of vaccines from the Red Cross.
  • We receive this news with pleasure and pride, as the Treaty will enable further enlargement.
  • We receive visitors or Tobias comes and we liven up for a moment.
  • We receive it at the age of 18.
  • (2) We receive His Spirit and everlasting life (Acts 2:38, 1 John 5:11-12).
  • (3) We receive the right to become the children of God (John 1:12).
  • (5) We receive all the blessings of God (Ephesians 1:3-23).
  • We receive shots of our house, apparently to show us we're under surveillance.
  • We receive a substantial number of souls from anonymous donors-

Alternatives:

  • We get
  • We obtain
  • We acquire
  • We collect
  • We are given

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

"we are receiving"

Use "we are receiving" in the present continuous tense to talk about actions happening at the moment of speaking or around the current time. It indicates an action in progress.

Examples:

  • We are receiving a lot of calls right now.
  • The team is receiving training this week.
  • I am receiving feedback on my project.
  • They are receiving support from the community.
  • Are you receiving any help with your assignment?
  • Now, all across the country, we are receiving reports that various things are disappearing.
  • I'm just getting word that we are receiving a claim of responsibility, a transmission.
  • Twenty percent of the posters we are receiving comes from schools.
  • The information we are receiving about this makes us very sceptical.
  • This is goes without saying to us, but the reports we are receiving about it are not positive.
  • Heavenly father, make us thankful for this, thy bounty we are receiving for the nourishment of our bodies.
  • The applications we are receiving for projects connected with education and culture in the broad sense are at least 50% more than we are able to grant.
  • This is the Chief Caretaker speaking; we are receiving you, Caretaker number 345/12 subsection 3.
  • The reports we are receiving Now are that There are four American Military confirmed dead
  • The situation is very grave, the information we are receiving is more and more worrying and the human rights violations are extremely serious.
  • Painful as it is to say so, the reports we are receiving are getting increasingly alarming and increasingly tragic.
  • I am thus pleased that we are starting to see examples of the directive achieving measurable results, such as the huge number of notifications of amendments to legislation that we are receiving from the Member States.
  • We are receiving a transmission from Gravesworld, sir.
  • We are receiving the coordinates from General Kenobi.
  • We are receiving a signal from the tracker.
  • We are receiving enthusiastic support from all over the business and scientific community in Europe.
  • We are receiving and monitoring reports on the sanitary conditions in these, the lack of food and the mental and physical ill-treatment.
  • We are receiving, sir.
  • The way we are receiving you today is innovative.
  • I am extremely happy with the support we are receiving from the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Alternatives:

  • We are getting
  • We are obtaining
  • We are acquiring
  • We are collecting
  • We are being given

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