English Verb Tenses
Made
Simple Course
Lesson 05
Welcome to the fifth lesson of this special course!
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On this lesson we will learn 3 very common tenses in English:
The Progressive Tenses
PROGRESSIVE means "continuing."The progressive tense is a form of a verb that shows the action is in progress. Or in other words, it continues.
- Past Progressive is a form of the verb that shows the action was in progress at some time in the past.
- Present Progressive is a form of the verb that shows the action is in progress in the present.
- Future Progressive is a form
of the verb that shows the action will be in progress at some time in
the future.
For example: Lisa will be dancing tomorrow at 8 o'clock.
For example: Lisa was dancing yesterday at 8 o'clock.
For example: Lisa is dancing right now.
Okay, so now we start the real work! :)
A) Do the following steps, one after the other:
- Read
the general explanation about the Present Progressive
tense
- Read
the rules for positive sentences, negative sentences and questions
- Read the
list
of examples
- Do the exercises
B) Do the following steps, one after the other:
- Read
the general explanation about the Past
Progressive tense
- Read
the rules for positive sentences, negative sentences and questions
- Read
the list of examples
- Do the exercises
C) Do the following steps, one after the other:
- Read
the general explanation about the Future Progressive
tense
- Read
the rules for positive sentences, negative sentences and questions
- Read the
list of
examples
- Do the exercises
Come back
when you are done...
Are you done? Great!
Then let's continue.
On the next lesson we will learn another common English tense, and 2 more tenses which are not so common...
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