Review of the present continuous: negative and questions

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The present continuous is one of the first verb tenses you learn in English. It and the present simple are essential in the most basic levels of English, so it never hurts to take a look at them if you're not completely estonia phone number list on them. Today we bring you a review so that you don't forget this verb tense and to help you practice other details such as the negative present continuous and questions.



The present continuous
It is used for activities that are happening right now or around this time:

I am sleeping very well lately. — I am sleeping very well lately.
We are watching our favourite show. — We are watching our favourite series.
She is driving home — She is driving home.
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The structure is very easy to remember: the correct conjugation of be is added to the verb in the gerund (-ing ) :

Subject + be + gerund + complements

She is singing a Christmas carol

But what happens if the sentence is in the negative? We will explain it to you below.

Present continuous negative
To form the negative, you have to put a not after the verb to be :

I am not sleeping very well lately. — I am not sleeping very well lately.
Remember that the negative is not usually contracted here because it is next to be , so if there is a contraction, it will be of the verb to be :

I 'm not sleeping very well lately .
We 're not watching
She's not driving
And that's it, it's that simple. The negative present continuous can also appear in questions, which we explain in the next section.