present tense

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• Middelbare school

The Present Tense

I work here

I am working here now

I have worked here for 5 years

I have been working here for 5 years

present simple

present continuous

present perfect

present perfect continuous

Present Simple

• habits
• facts

This is Josh. He lives in Oss, we walk to school together every morning and Josh knows water freezes at 0 degrees Celcius.

Tell me about a habit of yours.

Present Continuous:

* It's happening right now or about right now.

* 'if it's something you can see, use a form of 'to be' and a verb with -ing'.

Jill is wearing a striped shirt and she is eating spaghetti.

Tell me about something you are doing right now or someone else is doing right now.

Present Perfect: 

* started in the past and is still going on

have/has (shit rule) + verd-ed

"Josh has played the piano for 5 years." 

Perfect continuous:

* started in the past and is still going on

have/has + been + verb-ing

"Josh has been playing the piano for a long time now." 

Deja vu?

Perfect continuous:

Often the same as perfect simple

Difference: bigger emphasis on how long it took

Some verbs are 'short', those never have continuous: 

-stop, break, start, lose, find-

Long verbs?

Tell me about something you've been doing for a long time.