PRESENT CONTINUOS

Verbs ending in –y add

eat 🡪 eating
No Change -ing
General rule do 🡪 doing
Base form + buy 🡪 buying
listen 🡪 listening
ing enjoy 🡪 enjoying
ski 🡪 skiing
study 🡪 studying
Change
When a verb ends with write 🡪 writing live 🡪 living
drops the final –e and
-e close 🡪 closing move 🡪 moving
add -ing
Change
die 🡪 dying
When a verb ends with drops the final
tie 🡪 tying
-ie –ie and add –y
lie 🡪lying
and ing

When verbs of one syllable Change

run 🡪 running shop 🡪 shopping
end in consonant-vowel- Double the consonant
sit 🡪 sitting jog 🡪 jogging
consonant and add -ing

When verbs, with more than

one syllable, end in
consonant-vowel- consonant
and have the stress in the
last syllable
Change
occur 🡪 occurring begin 🡪 beginning
Double the consonant
admit 🡪 admitting refer 🡪 referring
and add -ing

(AM, IS, ARE)ando-endo

Structure
(+) noun + to be + verb(ing)+ complement
Eg. She is cooking a cake

(-)noun + to be not + verb(ing)+

complement
Eg. We aren`t swimming on the sea

(¿)to be + noun + verb(ing)+ complement?

Eg. Are you Writing a letter or a poem?
(¿)Wh + to be + noun + verb(ing) +
complement?
Eg. Why are you doing his homework?
Because i am borrowing him a favour

(What time/ to do / melissa/ her

homework)

What time is melissa doing her homework?