{"id":100,"date":"2019-04-25T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/zyle\/?p=100"},"modified":"2021-03-23T04:57:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T04:57:11","slug":"present-continuous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/verb-tenses\/present-continuous.htm","title":{"rendered":"Present Continuous &#8211; English grammar courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We use the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to express the idea that something is happening now. This tense can also be used to talk in general about what\u2019s happening now, something that constantly repeats as well certain future plans and arrangements. The form of this tense is Subject + To be + Infinitive + Ing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at some examples:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table width=\"632\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">First person<\/td>\n<td width=\"416\">Notes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">What are you doing?<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"416\">Things that are happening now, at the moment.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">She\u2019s reading in the garden.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">I\u2019m reading a book.<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"416\">Actions happening in a period <em>around<\/em> the present moment in time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">He\u2019s studying hard this year.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">He\u2019s always working on the weekends.<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"416\">Actions that constantly repeat.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">They\u2019re always playing poker.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">We\u2019re having a test this evening.<\/td>\n<td rowspan=\"2\" width=\"416\">Future plans and arrangements.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"216\">I am not coming on Friday.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can ask questions with the present continuous tense by using the following words for the relevant pronouns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIs\u201d for he, she, it. For example: Is she working right now?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAre\u201d for you, we and they. For example: Are you walking here right now?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can add \u201cnot\u201d after \u201cis\u201d or \u201care\u201d. For example: is he not walking here right now? Are they not attending the meeting?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can abbreviate \u201cis not\u201d to \u201cisn\u2019t\u201d and \u201care not\u201d to \u201caren\u2019t\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s do some exercises with what we have learned already. Place the appropriate present continuous word in the gaps and make sure to include \u201cam\u201d, \u201cis\u201d or \u201care\u201d: type, eat, listen,\u00a0 talk, walk, buy, play, dance, talk, drink, watch, work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I ______ to the store right now.<\/li>\n<li>He _____ something on his computer.<\/li>\n<li>They ______ very loudly outside.<\/li>\n<li>He ______ some water.<\/li>\n<li>Is she _______ the piano?<\/li>\n<li>She ______ as an accountant right now.<\/li>\n<li>They ______ in the club.<\/li>\n<li>Mark ______ on the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa and Johnny _______ new clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Denny and Michelle _______ chocolate.<\/li>\n<li>My grandmother ______ to music.<\/li>\n<li>We _______ a movie.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to express the idea that something is happening now. This tense can also be used to talk in general about what\u2019s happening now, something that constantly repeats as well certain future plans and arrangements. The form of this tense is Subject + To be + Infinitive + &#8230; <a title=\"Present Continuous &#8211; English grammar courses\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/verb-tenses\/present-continuous.htm\" aria-label=\"Read more about Present Continuous &#8211; English grammar courses\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verb-tenses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youlearnenglish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}