Vocabulary


Rules for creating the “ing-form”


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Rules for creating the “ing-form”

  • The doubling rule: When a single syllable verb ends with a letter sequence of “consonant-vowel-consonant”, double the final consonant and add “ing”.
    • beg -> begging; stop -> stopping;
    • Exceptions:
      • If the verb is longer than one syllable, double only if the stress falls on the last syllable.
      • Ex: forget -> forgetting verses ??
      • The letters h, w, x, & y are never doubled (fix-fixing; row -> rowing )

Use of the Present Participle

  • Present participle form is used
    • To express the past, present and future continuous tenses
    • As well as the past, present and future perfect continuous tenses
    • As a noun (in which case it is called a “gerund”)
    • As an adjective
      • It was an amazing film.

Present Continuous Tense Usage

  • Primary use is to express the idea that something is happening now, at this very moment.
    • You are learning English now.
    • You are not swimming now.
    • Are you sleeping?
    • I am not sitting.
  • The simple present expresses a frequent action, habit, etc. Not necessarily something you are doing now.

Present Continuous Tense Usage

  • However, sometimes we use the Present Continuous to say that we are in the process of doing a longer – but temporary – action which is in progress now; however, we might not be doing it at this exact second.
    • I am studying to become a doctor.
    • I am reading the book Tom Sawyer.
    • I am not reading any books right now.
    • (All of these sentences can be said while eating dinner in a restaurant.)

  • In English, "now" can mean: this second, today, this month, this year, this century, and so on.

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