PRESENT CONTINUOUS Tense

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PRESENT CONTINUOUS Tense
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Subject is/am/are Verbing

• eg she is talking.
• I am singing.
• They are shouting.
• She is playing tennis.

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Negative (not)Subject is/am/are not
verbing

• eg she is not (isn't) talking.
• I am not singing.
• They are not (arent) shouting.

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Questions (?)Is/Am/Are subject Verbing

• Am I going?
• Are you going?
• Is (he, she, it) going?
• Are (we, you, they) going?

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2. Present continuous, function

• When someone uses the present continuous, they
  are thinking about something that is unfinished
  or incomplete.

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The present continuous is used to
describe an action in progress(??) at the time of
speaking,

• Look! Its raining.
• Watch out! The car is coming.

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to describe an action that is going on at this
moment,

• e.g. You are using the Internet.
• You are studying English grammar.

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to describe a temporary(??) event(??) or
situation(??),

• e.g.
• He usually plays the drums, but he's playing
  bass guitar tonight.

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to describe an action that is going on during
this period of time or a trend(??),

• e.g.Are you still working for the same company?
• More and more people are becoming
  vegetarian(???).

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with always, forever, constantly, to
describe and emphasize a continuing series of
repeated (??)actions,

• e.g. Harry and Sally are always arguing! You're
  forever complaining about your mother-in-law!

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to describe an action or event in the future,
which has already been planned or prepared (See
also 'Ways of expressing the future)

• e.g. We're going on holiday tomorrow.
• I'm meeting my boyfriend tonight. Are they
  visiting you next winter?

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-ing forms

• with most verbs we add ing
• e.g. going, singing
• answering
• walking
• jumping

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• With verbs that end with ie, we change ie to
  ying
• e.g. lie lying
• die dying
• tie tying

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• With the verbs that end with a consonant (??)
  -e, we deleted the e and add ing
• egwrite writing
• smile smiling
• come coming
• live living
• take taking
• queue - queuing

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• With verbs that end with one vowel 1 consonant
  (??) (g, m, n, p, t, d), we double the
  consonant
• eg getting, running, swimming, jogging, kidding,
  stoppingetc.

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• But note that we do not double the consonant
  (??),
• When it is a y or w,
• eg staying, buying, borrowing, playing,
• When the last syllable is not stressed
• visiting, listening, wondering,

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• But note also that we double the l at the end
  of verbs, when the last syllable(??) is not
  stressed(??)
• e.g. travel travelling

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• www.edunet.com/english/grammar/Tenses2.cfm
• http//www.cbooks.org/wgame.asp

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