PRES SIMPLE AND CONT AND ACTION-NON ACTION VERBS

PRESENT SIMPLE vs PRESENT CONTINUOUS

WHEN TO USE P. SIMPLE AND P. CONTINUOUS

• Things that are always true.
• Things that happen regularly.

Use ASI or QUASI to help you with the word order in questions.

With things that happen regularly, we usually find frequency adverbs (how often?):

ALWAYS

OFTEN

USUALLY

SOMETIMES

HARDLY EVER

NEVER

PRESENT SIMPLE

• Actions in progress.
• Future arrangements.

• Click here to revise how to make questions in present continuous.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS

ACTION AND NON-ACTION VERBS

NON-ACTION VERBS are verbs that describe states or feelings. (agree, be, believe, belong, depend, feel, forget, hate, hear, know, like, love, matter, mean, need, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, seem, suppose, want.)

ACTION VERBS are verbs that describe actions. (cook, run, speak, make,...)

NON-ACTION verbs will never be used in continuous.

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