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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about the present continuous tense.

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Let's get started.

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Now we use the present continuous what we talk about something happening at the time of speaking or

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actions happening around now even though not at the moment of speaking.

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Note that this tense also has some future meaning.

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Have a look at the example over here.

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Hey what are you doing.

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I'm working on my thesis.

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I am graduating this semester.

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Note that in the sentence to present continuous tense is used to talk about something happening at the

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moment of speaking and the future

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now to form the present continuous tense.

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We used to be plus four.

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I N G the negative to be plus not plus verb I N G have a look at the examples b no positive sentence

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she is sleeping on the couch in the living room negative form she is not sleeping on the couch in the

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living room or he isn't sleeping there.

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Question form where is he is he sleeping

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now when words and an E to form the presence he was tense he get rid of the E and add i n g for example

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like liking write writing and when a verb ends in a vowel plus consonant we double the continent plus

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i n g for example sits sitting swim swimming and when a verb ends in I E return i e into y and then

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add i n g as in ly lying Di dying we can also use the present continuous with phrases such as now.

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Right now at the moment today this week etc. Have a look at the example over here I'm quite busy this

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year as I'm trying to start my small business.

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Note that we use the present continuous to talk about changing situations.

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Have a look at the examples we know the population of the world increases very fast.

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Note that the increase of the population of the world is a changing situation and so we must say the

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population of the world is increasing very fast.