Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Structure:
I am eating
You are playing
He is singing
She is studying
It is travelling
We are talking
They are reading
When is it used?
E.g. I am writing
You are speaking
He is watching TV
WRONG RIGHT
I am loving pizza I love pizza
I am needing a friend I need a friend
I am understanding the lesson I understand the lesson
RULES:
1. When you have a verb ending with ‘e’ in the P.C. ‘you kick the ‘e’ out the
window’! and add –ing
2. When you have a vowel before the last letter, the letter is doubled:
3. When you have 2 Vowels before the last letter, it is not doubled:
REMEMBER: -ing must never stand-alone, -ing always needs their helpers: is, are, am
NEGATIVE
QUESTION
To make our statement into a question we must put our helper verbs INFRONT