CONTINUOUS CONTINUOUS EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: She plays the piano every Friday. Andres is playing football at the He has been to England. She has been working on the Where is his phone? moment. He has just finished his work. project. Maca is working at home.
USES: USES: USES: USES:
o Habits. o To express progressive o Actions which began in the o To express temporary o Real truths. Laws of nature. actions in the present past and continue in the Actions and situations. o Time tables. o Arrange actions in the present. o We use the Present Perfect future. o Actions which happened at Continuous to show that o Complain: You are forever an indefinite (unknown) something started in the past interrupting. time before now. and continues in the present. o Temporary actions. o Actions in the past which o To talk about actions that have an effect on the began in the past an0d have present moment. recently stopped. 2 BACH PRESENT TENSES REVISION SUMMARY
FORM : FORM: FORM:
Subject + verb in base form + Subject + is/are verb in base Subject + has/have + past Subject + has/have + been + verb-ing object. form+ ing + object. participle/ed. + object. Auxiliaries in negative and interrogative: Do/Does.
Every day Just ever Always When Already Usually While Recently For durig Often Stil Never. Never Hardly ever Since Seldom (hardly ever] Yet For STATIVE VERBS ACTIVE VERBS STATIVE VERBS ACTIVE VERBS EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: EXAMPLES: I think that coffe is great. What are you thinking?