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    The document summarizes the key differences between using the present simple tense versus the present continuous tense in English. The present simple is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, permanent states, general truths, future schedules, and narratives told in the present. The present continuous is used to describe actions happening now or around now, actions in progress over a period of time including the present, planned future arrangements, and expressions of irritation with ongoing actions.

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    The document summarizes the key differences between using the present simple tense versus the present continuous tense in English. The present simple is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, permanent states, general truths, future schedules, and narratives told in the present. The present continuous is used to describe actions happening now or around now, actions in progress over a period of time including the present, planned future arrangements, and expressions of irritation with ongoing actions.

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    The document summarizes the key differences between using the present simple tense versus the present continuous tense in English. The present simple is used to describe habitual or repeated actions, permanent states, general truths, future schedules, and narratives told in the present. The present continuous is used to describe actions happening now or around now, actions in progress over a period of time including the present, planned future arrangements, and expressions of irritation with ongoing actions.

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    The Present Tense Simple

    vs.
    The Present Continuous
    • General characteristics • Actions going on at the moment of speaking.
    e.g. Birds sing. NOW
    Dogs bark. AT THE MOMENT
    • Facts that are always true. e.g. I am teaching you grammar rules now.
    e.g. Wood floats on water.
    The Sun rises in the East.
    • Habitual, repeated actions. • Actions which are going on in the present over a limited
    Always, rarely, seldom, often, sometimes, never, usually period of time.
    Every day/ week/ month/ year/ now and then/ once in a Today
    blue moon This week/ month
    On Mondays/ Tuesdays This year
    At Christmas e.g. I am learning for my driver’s license this year.
    In the evening/ in the afternoon

    e.g. I usually go to work by bus but this week I am taking the car.
    • State verbs • Event verbs
    • Mental verbs: to think, to believe, to -
    assume • e.g. I am thinking of buying a new house.
    e.g. I think English is beautiful. (evaluate, consider)
    • Permanent characteristics: to be, to
    measure, to weigh • She is being nice (today).
    e.g. I am a teacher. • I am weighing the baby.
    • I am weighing the situation. (evaluating)
    She is nice.
    This table weighs 20 pounds.
    • I’m loving it!
    • Feelings and emotions: to love, to like, to
    hate
    e.g. I love English. I love McDonalds.
    • I’m smelling the soup/ the perfume.
    • Sense verbs: to see, to hear, to smell
    • You’re seeing things! You’re hearing things!
    e.g. This soup smells like onions. • I’m seeing Jane from the HR department.
    I see two people down the street.
    • Future actions (timetables, schedules, • Future actions (100% certainty):
    programmes) (100% certainty) planned arrangements
    e.g. School starts at 9 o’clock. e.g. I’m seeing Jane at the station
    tonight.
    The plane to London takes off at 5
    a.m. I’m flying to London tomorrow
    morning.
    To be going future (75% certainty):
    intentions, plans
    e.g. I am marrying this year. (all
    arrangements have been made: I have
    proposed, we’ve booked the
    restaurant)
    I am getting married this year. (it’s
    all in my mind, I dream to do so)
    • Sports commentaries • Irritation of an action, annoying habit
    e.g. Z takes the ball, shoots and Always
    scores. Forever
    e.g. You are forever interrupting me!
    • Narratives (past action) You’re always losing your keys!
    e.g. They meet in 1954, they instantly
    fall in love and get married soon after.

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