2. Present Continuous Tense

2. Present Continuous Tense

        Adalah Kalimat yang menyatakan suatu kegiatan yang dilakukan sedang sekarang Pattern and Example:

(+) Positive

Subject	To be	Verb-ing	Object	Adverb
I	am	Sweeping	the floor	Now
Father	is	Working	At office	now

(- ) Negative

Subject	To be not	Verb-ing	Object	Adverb
I	Am not	Sweeping	The floor	now
Father	Is not	Working	At office	now

(? ) Interrogative

To be	Subject	Verb-ing	Object	Adverb
Am	I	Sweeping	The floor	Now
Is	Father	Working	At office	Now

Present continuous tense dapat dibagi menjadi dua tipe. Yaitu:

1. Aktivitas yang dilakukan saat sedang berbicara

-       Lenny is singing a song now

-      Ihsan and his friends are doing homework now

2. Aktivitas yang dilakukan pada masa yang akan datang.

-      He is going to the theater tonight

-      They are going to your house tomorrow

Notes:

          Kata tanya “When” (kapan) jangan digunakan dalam Presrent Continuous Tense kecuali bila dimasukkan untuk menyatakan tindakan yang segera dan pasti (=immediate future).ii

Ada sejumlah verb tertentu yang tidak boleh digunakan dalam Present Continuous Tense meskipun tindakkan betul-betul dilakukan pada waktu sekarang dan sebagai gantinya dipakai kalimat di Present Tense. Verb-verb tersebut antara lain adalah see, hear, smell, forget, remember, know, understand, like, hate, care, dsb.

Example:

I know the lesson now, bukannya I am knowing the lesson now

          Do you understand now? Bukannya are you understanding now?

     He doesn’t remember anything at present bukannya he isn’t remembering                                                                                                 anything at present.