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PRESENT SIMPLE
The present simple is used to indicate actions that are habitual or actions occurring but not necessarily at the time spoken.
For example: - I go shopping with my friends - He reads to the children - She stops in front of the school
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
The present continuous tense is indicating an action that is happening at the time of speaking. It is quite similar to, for example, 'eating', 'walking', 'saying', etc.. In colloquial English also means something that will happen very soon.
Example: - I am studying for my exam - Robert is driving to the supermarket - The mechanic is fixing our car
For incomplete actions that are happening, but not necessarily at the time of speaking.
Example: I am reading a very good novel. Preparations or plans to in the near future. In this case usually accompanied by expressions of future time. example: I am going to the cinema tonight. For actions that are repeated regularly and tend to keep a sense of grievance, of monotony. example: She is always complaining. When you change the routine or break a habit. Example: We usually have dinner at home, but tonight we are eating out.
For future plans, especially to refer to schedules or programs. In prayer we must put temporal expression indicating some future time.
Example: The train leaves in an hour To tell jokes, stories, tales, sports events. Example: Two people walk into a restaurant. One of them says to the waiter.... ).
STATIC VERBS
VERBS MEANING Feel, Hear, See, Smell, Taste
EMOTIVE VERBS: Believe, dislike, doubt, imagine, hate, know, like, Love, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, suppose, think, understand, want, wis VERBS OF STATE OR ABSTRACT VERBS: be, Cost, seem, Need, Care, Contain, exist VERBS OF POSSESSION: Belong, Have, possess, own VERBS OF COMMUNICATION: Agree, Astonish, deny, Disagree, impress, Mean, please, Promise, Satisfy, surprise
EXPRESSIONS OF TIME
Yesterday - today tomorrow- yesterday morning - this afternoon - tomorrow evening - Notice the expressions referring to the night (night): last night - tonight - tomorrow night - To refer to the days of the week, months, seasons, years and centuries used the words last, this y next : last week - this month - next year last Monday - this April - next century last winter - this summer - next spring
- Proposition is used on for days of the week and for other word for 'time':
on Monday, on Saturday morning, on weekdays, on time - And the preposition in for different parts of days, months, years and seasons: in the morning, in March, in 2000, in (the) autumn