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Default Re: Past tense VS present perfect?

Something occurred to me...

When you used "where", were you perhaps confusing "be up to" with "be off to" ?

"be up to" = do, so What are you up to? / What are you doing?
"be off to" = go, so Where are you off to? / Where are you going?
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