This document provides information about the present continuous tense in English, including its affirmative, negative, and question forms. It lists the structures used to form present continuous sentences and gives examples of its common uses such as describing habits, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future arrangements. It also includes some useful expressions that are often used with the present continuous tense.
This document provides information about the present continuous tense in English, including its affirmative, negative, and question forms. It lists the structures used to form present continuous sentences and gives examples of its common uses such as describing habits, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future arrangements. It also includes some useful expressions that are often used with the present continuous tense.
This document provides information about the present continuous tense in English, including its affirmative, negative, and question forms. It lists the structures used to form present continuous sentences and gives examples of its common uses such as describing habits, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future arrangements. It also includes some useful expressions that are often used with the present continuous tense.
This document provides information about the present continuous tense in English, including its affirmative, negative, and question forms. It lists the structures used to form present continuous sentences and gives examples of its common uses such as describing habits, general truths, repeated actions, instructions, and future arrangements. It also includes some useful expressions that are often used with the present continuous tense.
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PRESENT CONTINUOUS
AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE QUESTION
I ‘m working I ‘m not working Am I working? you ‘re working you aren’t working Are You working? he ‘s working he isn’t working Is He working? she ‘s working she isn’t working Is She working? it ‘s working it isn’t working Is It working? we ‘re working we aren’t working Are We working? you ‘re working you aren’t working Are You working? they ‘re working they aren’t working Are they working?
STRUCTURES
(+) SUJ + V-TO BE PRESENT + V-BASE FORM+ -ing + C
(-) SUJ + V-TO BE PRESENT NEG + V- BASE FORM+ -ing + C
(?) V-TO BE PRESENT + SUJ + V BASE FORM + -ing + C + ?
USES: USEFUL EXPESSIONS:
- habits I smoke (habit) always
usually - general truths London is a large city (general truth) often sometimes - repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and occasionally wishes: I work in London (unchanging situation) rarely never - To give instructions or directions: You walk for two hundred days of the Week meters, then you turn left. times of the Day - To express fixed arrangements, present or future: Your exam starts at 09.00 every day/week / year
- To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, in winter / spring,…
when, before, as soon as, until: He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday. once a day twice a week