By: Luz Andrea Barrera Zuluaga

Presentcontinuous

The Present Continuous or Present Progressive tense is used to express actions happening at the same time you are talking, for example:I am speaking English. (It's happening now).You are reading a book... He is studying the lessonShe is buying a hat

What is present continuous

Also be used to refer to situations that occur around the time when one speaks, albeit not have to be at this moment, for example:

He is working in a bank. (It means that is his usual work, but not necessarily the person should be working now).

In the top box uses the verb play (PLAY TO) as an example

present continuous" is used to• Actions that are being made at the same time spoken:ExampleI am eating an apple

Me estoy comiendo una manzana

Use the present continuous

sujeto + verbo to be conjugado + verbo con terminación- Ing.  ( gerundioexample :I am singing : yo estoy cantando you are singing :tú estás cantandohe is singing : él está cantando we are singing : nosotros estamos cantando you are sin ging : vosotros estáis cantando

they are singing : ellos están cantando

structure of the present continuous

tructure :Subject + Verb "to be" + not + Verb Conjugate

I am not singingyo no estoy cantando

he is not singingél no está cantando

denial in the Present Continuous

Structure of the question:Verbo "to be" Conjugado + Sujeto + Verbo con -ing Conjugation: meaningam I singing? ¿estoy cantando?is he singing? ¿estás cantando? are we singing? ¿ estamos cantando? are you singing? ¿estáis cantando? are they singing? ¿están cantando?

question in the present continuous