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THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE /CONTINUOUS MEANS:

 Again. (Repetition)
 Now. Right now. At this moment. (The instant) OR WITH AN ADVERB OF TIME AN ACTION IN THE FUTURE. (Tomorrow, next week, tonight, in a
few hours, etc.)
 Yet. (A hold on time, usually in a negative sentence)

THE PAST PROGRESSIVE / CONTINUOUS MEANS:


 An action that was happening at a moment in the past.
 An action that was interrupted at a moment in the past.
 An action happening in the past combined with a finished action (past simple)
…Careful though with the adverbs, some of them are not appropriate with both present and past continuous.

 The –ing form is also considered as a form of noun/substantive.


Swimming is a sport. Mining is a hard activity. You are not good at writing (or reading, listening and other intellectual activities).
 The –ing form is also considered an infinitive verb variant, usually when It has/carries a preposition or a conjunction (on, off, for, from, etc… but,
or, and, therefore, either, etc..) before.
Examples:
Eating home is less expensive than eating OUT.
On dreaming and listening nothing is written.
Before putting me in this spot, you should have asked.
ORIGINAL SENTENCE Present progressive /continuous
(+) (-) (?)
0. this doesn’t work.  This is working.  This isn’t working.  Is this working?
.
1. He is unreasonable.
2. You didn´t bring the car.
3. What do we do?
4. You should study more.
5. The storm just finished.
6. What you did blows my
mind.

ORIGINAL SENTENCE Present progressive /continuous


(+) (-) (?)
7. She goes to France tomorrow.
8. But she loves it!
9. Specially because you don´t go
yet.
10. You should ask her forgiveness.
11. She made you cry.
12. She dumped you.

ORIGINAL SENTENCE Present progressive /continuous


(+) (-) (?)
13. She flies away now.
14. He gets the check.
15. After Julio signed it.
16. We wrote it wrong.
17. You said it again.
18. You shouldn´t read that.
19. Perhaps I took too much.
20. Do you trust me?
ORIGINAL SENTENCE Present progressive /continuous
(+) (-) (?)
21. We didn´t believe them.
22. They lie to us.
23. We are fooled by this guy.
24. We are attacked by him.
25. He attacks us.
26. They trained a lot.
27. We broke the law.
28. But they forced us to do it.

BE GOING TO - Sentences Present progressive /continuous


(+) (-) (?)
1. He is going to do it later.  He is doing it later.  He isn’t doing it later.  Is he doing it later?

2. We aren´t going to finish this.


3. The ship is going to sail
tomorrow.
4. Are you going to bother me
again?
5. The song is going to be sung
again.
6. Horses are going to be sold
next week.
7. He is going to buy them.
8. They aren´t going to come yet.
9. You are going to waste our
time.
10. The money is going to be
wasted.
11. He is going to dream about it.
12. The dream is going to be made.
13. This record is going to make us
famous.
14. She is going to bite me.
15. She was bitten before.
STATIVE VERBS
(Description of a state, not involving a physical action, also called nonaction verbs).
They are for feelings, senses, emotions and mental states.
THEY ARE USUALLY NOT USED IN THE CONTINUOUS TENSES (present and past continuous) except with certain special meaning:
Dr. Diaz is seeing a patient now (meeting)
She is having problems with her boyfriend (experiencing)
So far I´m liking it (experiencing)
Examples of stative verbs:
To like To hate
To think To want
To prefer To need
To cost

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