present Continuous Tense are often used in engish.present continuous tense are used to talk about the action happening at present and action which will be done in the future.
To form the sentense in this tense we should know these:
How do we make the present continuous tense?
| subject | + | auxiliary verb | + | main verb |
| be | base + ing |
Look at these examples:
| subject | auxiliary verb | main verb | |||
| + | I | am | speaking | to you. | |
| + | You | are | reading | this. | |
| - | She | is | not | staying | in London. |
| - | We | are | not | playing | football. |
| ? | Is | he | watching | TV? | |
| ? | Are | they | waiting | for John? |
Present continuous tense is used to talk about ,
1.Action happening now
2.action happen in future
Present Continuous Tense for action happening now.
a.For action happening exactly now
example:
i am eating my lunch.
I am waiting for my friend.
b.For action happening around now.
The action may not happen exactly now,but it is happening in the past or after now.
example:
ramesh is going out with ravi to bring dinner.
ganesh is learning to speak in english.
I am living with my friends until i build a new house.
Present continuous tense for the future:
We can also use the present continuous tense for the future by adding future words.We only use the present continuous tense to talk about the future when it is planned to do something before speak.The future words are ,example tomorrow,next month,next week,next year,tonight,in march,at christmas.
example:
I am going to take my seminar today afternoon.
We are going to play cricket tomorrow.
when are you going to leave from india?
How do we spell Present Continuous Tense?
ie.,How do we change the main verb from'to be' to main verb+ing?
We can get Present Continuous Tense by adding +ing to base verb.It's very easy.But sometimes we should follow some rules.Perhaps we should double the last word or we should drop the last letter.here we see it preifly.
| Basic rule | Just add -ing to the base verb: | ||||||||||
| work | > | working | |||||||||
| play | > | playing | |||||||||
| assist | > | assisting | |||||||||
| see | > | seeing | |||||||||
| be | > | being | |||||||||
| Exception 1 | If the base verb ends in consonant + stressed vowel + consonant, double the last letter:
(vowels = a, e, i, o, u) | ||||||||||
| stop | > | stopping | |||||||||
| run | > | running | |||||||||
| begin | > | beginning | |||||||||
| Note that this exception does not apply when the last syllable of the base verb is not stressed: | |||||||||||
| open | > | opening | |||||||||
| Exception 2 | If the base verb ends in ie, change the ie to y: | ||||||||||
| lie | > | lying | |||||||||
| die | > | dying | |||||||||
| Exception 3 | If the base verb ends in vowel + consonant + e, omit the e: | ||||||||||
| come | > | coming | |||||||||
| mistake | > | mistaking | |||||||||
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