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Present Continuous Overview and Exercises

The document discusses the present continuous tense in English. It provides the structure and examples of forming the present continuous in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative. The present continuous is used to describe actions that are happening now, ongoing trends or actions currently occurring, and planned future events. It can also describe temporary situations or events and be used with words like "always" to emphasize repeated actions. Certain verbs like thinking, knowing, seeing are usually not used in the progressive form as they describe states rather than actions.

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Present Continuous Overview and Exercises

The document discusses the present continuous tense in English. It provides the structure and examples of forming the present continuous in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative. The present continuous is used to describe actions that are happening now, ongoing trends or actions currently occurring, and planned future events. It can also describe temporary situations or events and be used with words like "always" to emphasize repeated actions. Certain verbs like thinking, knowing, seeing are usually not used in the progressive form as they describe states rather than actions.

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Friday, June 12th

Present continuous
Formación del "present continuous"
El "present continuous" de cualquier verbo se compone de dos partes: el presente del
verbo to be + el "present participle" del verbo principal.
(Para formar el "present participle": raíz+ing, e.g. talking, playing, moving, smiling)
Afirmativa
Sujeto + to be + raíz + ing
She is talking.
Negativa
Sujeto + to be + not + raíz + ing
She is not (isn't) talking
Interrogativa
to be + sujeto + raíz + ing
Is she talking?

Ejemplos: TO GO, "present continuous"

Afirmativa Negativa Interrogativa


I am going I am not going Am I going?
You are going You aren't going. Are you going?
He, she, it is going He, she, it isn't going Is he, she, it going?
We are going We aren't going Are we going?
You are going You aren't going Are you going?
They are going They aren't going Are they going?

Nota: contracciones de las formas negativas: I'm not going, you're not going, he's not
going etc.

Funciones del "present continuous"


Como ocurre con todos los tiempos verbales del inglés, la actitud del hablante es tan
importante como el momento en que ocurre la acción o el evento. Al emplear el
"present continuous", nos estamos refiriendo a algo que no ha terminado o está
incompleto
El "present continuous" se utiliza:
para describir una acción que está teniendo lugar en este momento: You are using the
Internet. You are studying English grammar.
para describir una tendencia o una acción que está sucediendo en la actualidad: Are
you still working for the same company? More and more people are
becoming vegetarian.
para describir una acción o evento futuros que ya están programados: We're going on
holiday tomorrow. I'm meeting my boyfriend tonight. Are they visiting you next
winter?
para describir una situación o evento temporales: He usually plays the drums, but he's
playing bass guitar tonight. The weather forecast was good, but it's raining at the moment.

con "always, forever, constantly", para describir y enfatizar una sucesión de acciones
repetidas: Harry and Sally are always arguing! You're constantly complaining about your
mother-in-law!

¡CUIDADO! Hay algunos verbos que no suelen emplear la forma progresiva

Verbos que no suelen emplear la forma progresiva


Los verbos de la siguiente lista suelen utilizar la forma simple porque hacen referencia
a estados, más que acciones o procesos.
Sensación / percepción to notice
to feel* to recognise
to hear Emociones / deseos
to see* to envy
to smell to fear
to taste to dislike
Opinión to hate
to assume to hope
to believe Medidas
to consider to contain
to doubt to cost
to feel (= pensar) to hold
to find (= considerar) to measure
to suppose to weigh
to think* Otros
Estados mentales to look (=parecerse a)
to forget to seem
to imagine to be (en la mayoría de los casos)
to know to have (cuando significa "poseer")*
to mean
Excepciones
Los verbos de sensación y percepción (see, hear, feel, taste, smell) suelen utilizarse
con can: I can see... Pueden tomar la forma progresiva, pero, en este caso, su
significado suele variar.
This coat feels nice and warm. (percepción de las cualidades del abrigo)
John's feeling much better now (está mejor de salud)
She has three dogs and a cat. (posesión)
She's having supper. (está tomando)
I can see Anthony in the garden (percepción)
I'm seeing Anthony later (tenemos intención de vernos)

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