Present Progressive

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Present Progressive

• Grammar essential 42

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Present Progressive

• What is it?
• It is used when action is happening in the
  present.
• Present progressive has a formula
• Formula
• estar (present tense) present participle.

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Making present participle

• Present participles end in ing and are part of a
  verb phrase.
• Present participles can be used as gerunds
  (nouns).
• If it is regular and the infinitive ends in ar,
  add ando to the stem.
• If it is regular and the infintive ends in
  er/-ir, add iendo to the stem.

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Making of present participle

• There are irregular present participles
• poder ? pudiendo
• traer ? trayendo
• venir ? viniendo
• decir ? diciendo
• ir ? yendo

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Making of present participle

• If i is surrounded with e or o, it changes to y.
  If the stem ends in a vowel, add y.
• creer ? creyendo

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Making of present participle

• Stem changes can only happen if
• it is a stem changer in the present tense.
• it ends ir.
• and it will change o?u or e?i

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Present progressive

• Formula
• Estar (present tense) present participle
• Estar in the present tense.
• estoy estamos
• estás estáis
• está están
• Translate
• She is cleaning.
• To clean limpiar
• Estar (present tense) present participle
• Ella está limpiando.