Present Continuous (based on the article)

Question 1

Are the Present Progressive and the Present Continuous the same things?

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Yes

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No

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Question 2

Is the Present Continuous used to talk about habits?

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No

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Question 3

"I have been programming for four hours"

Is this sentence in the Present Continuous?

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No

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It's the Present Perfect Continuous


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Question 4

A: Tell us something about your wife.

B: Her name is Brenda. We married 3 years ago. She's 34 years old. She works as a writer and she's writing a screenplay for a Hollywood movie.

A: Where is she now?

B: She is flying to Atlanta.

A: And she's writing the screenplay on the plane?

B: No, I don't think so.

A: But you have just said that she's writing a screenplay, haven't you?

Did person B make a grammatical mistake by saying: "She's writing a screenplay for a Hollywood movie."?

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Yes

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No

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Question 5
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Past participle

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Present participle

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Gerund

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Ing form

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Question 6

The Present Continuous is used with:

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State verbs (e.g. be, have, think, know)

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Permanent situations

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Future arrangements

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Irritation over something or somebody in the present

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Fixed / official arrangement that we can't change

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Present or temporary actions

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