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maggiejeria
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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PRESENT CONTINUOUS AND PRESENT PROGRESSIVE.
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Dear colleagues: Could you please, give some clear examples between Present Continuous and Present Progressive?. Thanks in advance.
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11 Oct 2012
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yanogator
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They �re just two names for the same thing.
Am/Is/Are + -ing form.
Bruce |
11 Oct 2012
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maggiejeria
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Bruce : Thank you very much. Do you know why they have two names?
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11 Oct 2012
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yanogator
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My guess is that it �s just different grammar textbooks. I think "progressive" is older, and "continuous" is much more common now. Bruce |
11 Oct 2012
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joy2bill
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I had assumed progressive was American and continuous British. |
11 Oct 2012
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Ttime
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In France it �s now called BE-ING present |
11 Oct 2012
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Mafalda31
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I�ve heard that progressive is British and contunuous American. I heard it from James a guy that has amazing and funny esl videos on youtube.
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12 Oct 2012
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cunliffe
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Pres continuous is the British name for this tense, and pres progressive is the American |
12 Oct 2012
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almaz
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British? American? I �ve never come across this distinction before. What I do recall, though, is that �present � is the actual tense while �progressive �/ �continuous � are aspects of this tense. And that both terms are generally considered to be interchangeable (but �progressive � is more common in grammars nowadays). Having said that, there �s an interesting distinction here in Wikipedia - although a �continuous � static-ness doesn �t make a lot of sense. |
12 Oct 2012
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MarionG
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@Ttime
Loved the new name; Be-ing Present ,
It is a good way to make them remember that they need the correct form of �to be � as well as the ing form of the verb (since Hebrew doesn �t have an equivalent of �to be � in present tense, my students tend to forget it...) |
12 Oct 2012
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cunliffe
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Almaz: are you in the UK? We call it the present continuous. |
12 Oct 2012
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