VOA · Everyday Grammar
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Everyday Grammar digs into one grammar topic per episode — verb tenses, prepositions, sentence patterns — with plenty of spoken examples. Because you are listening to language about language, it doubles as grammar review while you train your ears.
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01For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.
02Today we are going to look at the progressive verb tenses.
03Progressive tenses express actions that are unfinished or in progress.
04There are three progressive verb tenses, the past progressive, the present progressive, and the future progressive.
05Progressive tenses are the same as continuous tenses.
06We will start with the present progressive, the most common progressive tense.
07You form the present progressive tense by using a form of the verb be followed by an ing verb.
08For example, It is easy to confuse the simple present and the present progressive.
09What's the difference between It rains in Seattle and It is raining in Seattle.
10It rains in Seattle states that it rains in general.
11It does not necessarily mean that it is raining at the moment of speaking.
12It is raining in Seattle means that the rain started in the past, is happening now, and will probably continue into the future.
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14Now,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
17Now,!!!!!!!!!!
18Now,!!
19Now,!
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