Examples: + You are working so hard today.
─ Dian is not taking Psycholinguistics course this semester. ? Are you writing a novel now?
d. To talk about changes happening around now Examples:
+ The world‟s population is increasing very fast. ─ The weather is not changing these days. Rain falls everyday.
? Is the wor ld‟s population increasing now?
The patterns of Present Continuous Tense:
+ Subject + be am, is, are + verb+ing + object + adverb ─ Subject + be am, is, are + not + verb+ing + object + adverb
? Be am, is, are + subject + verb+ing + object + adverb
Notes:
1. There are some verbs that are not normally used in the Present Continuous Tense. They are: like, love, hate, want, need, prefer, know,
suppose, mean, believe, contain, consist, understand, seem, belong, see, hear, think, smell, and taste Murphy, 1994:8.
2. The rules of spelling Hayden, et. al., 1985:3:
a. The final e that is not pronounced is dropped, examples:
write writing
take taking
argue arguing
BUT: final ee is retained, examples:
free freeing
agree agreeing
b. A final consonant letter except h, w, x, y in one word syllable,
preceded by a single vowel letter, is doubled, examples:
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stop stopping
c. Some words ending with ie change the ie into y when the ing
ending is added, examples: die
dying
tie tying
3. The verb think can appear in Simple Present Tense and Present Continuous Tense, but it has different meaning. Compare:
a. I think Anto is a clever student. I believe Anto is a clever student b. I‟m thinking of Rudi. He has been sick for a week. I am
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