PRESENT CONTINUOUS FORM

 PRESENT CONTINUOUS FORM

How to make the Present Continuous Tense

(also called the Present Progressive Tense)

Level: beginner

The present continuous is made from the present tense of the verb be and the –ing form of a verb:

We use the present continuous to talk about:

• activities at the moment of speaking
• future plans or arrangements

Here is how we make the positive:

Subject	Auxiliary	Verb (present participle)
I	am	sleeping	in the garden.
He/She/It	is
You We You They	are

We can make the negative by adding 'not':

Subject	Auxiliary	not	Verb (present participle)
I	am	not	sleeping	in the garden.
He/She/It	is
You We You They	are

Questions are also really, really easy. Just like we made the question with 'be' in the present simple, here we also put 'am', 'is', or 'are' before the subject to make a 'yes / no' question:

Yes / No Questions

am I eating chocolate ?

are you studying now ?

is he working ?

is she doing her homework ?

is it raining ?

are we meeting at six ?

are they coming ?

(Question word)	Auxiliary	Subject	Verb (present participle) ?
(Where)	am	I	sleeping?
	is	he/she/it
	are	you we you they