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USE
We use Present Simple for | We use Present Continuous for | |
1. | regular activities: routines / repeated actions / habits | things which are happening now or around now |
2. | permanent actions / facts / laws of nature | temporary situations |
3. | reviews / sports commentaries / narrations | changing situations |
4. | timetables / programmes (future meaning) | fixed arrangements (in the near future) |
5. | non-continuous (state or stative) verbs | repeated actions expressing annoyance |
TIME EXPRESSIONS (or KEY WORDS)
Present Simple | Present Continuous |
every day every other day in the mornings on Mondays at night at seven o'clock at weekends in (the) winter once a day all the time from time to time always usually regularly often sometimes rarely seldom hardly ever never etc. | (right) now at the moment at present these days today/ tonight this morning Look! Listen! etc. |
Revise the USE and TIME EXPRESSIONS of Present Simple.
Revise the USE and TIME EXPRESSIONS of Present Continuous.
Present Simple | Present Continuous |
V / Vs | am / is / are + Ving |
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V — Verb (the infinitive of the verb without "to"/ Present Simple verb (for I, we, you, they). E.g. write, go, listen, etc.Vs — Present Simple verb (for he, she, it). E.g. writes, goes, listens, etc. Revise how to add "s" to a verb here.
Ving — Verb ending in "-ing" (Present Participle). E.g. writing, going, listening, etc. Revise how to add "ing" to a verb here.