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Please correct my following sentence:
Why have you been continuing to try to avoid meeting me?
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Hung Tao wrote:Please correct my following sentence:
Why have you been continuing to try to avoid meeting me?
Your sentence is not incorrect, but it might be more natural as:

Why do you keep trying to avoid me?
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