This document provides information about the present continuous tense in Portuguese. It lists the affirmative forms of the present continuous tense for each pronoun. It explains that the present continuous is used to talk about actions that are happening at the moment of speaking and often uses words like "now" or "at the moment". It provides rules for forming the -ing ending in Portuguese verbs and an exception for stative verbs like understand, think, know, like, love, hate and want which are not used in the continuous tense.

1. PRESENT
CONTINUOUS
FORMA AFIRMATIVA

2. FORMA
•Affirmative (S + TO BE + V-ING + C)
I am playing ... I’m playing
You are playing ... You’re playing
He is playing ... He’s playing
She is playing ... She’s playing
It is playing ... It’s playing
We are playing ... We’re playing
You are playing ... You’re playing
They are playing ... They’re playing

3. USO
• Usamos Present Continuous para falar sobre
ações que estão acontecendo no momento da
fala.
• Normalment usamos as seueintes expressoes
para identificar o Present Continuous
• now, at the moment, today.

4. Regras -ING
• Adicionamos –ing no final dos verbos:
play - playing cook - cooking
• Em verbos terminados em –e , tire o –e e
adicione –ing:
dance - dancing cycle - cycling
• Em verbos terminados em CVC
(consoante, vogal, consoante), duplique a
ùltima consoante e adicione –ing:
swim - swimming get - getting

5. EXCESSÃO
• Não utilizamos o Present Continuous em verbos que expressão
sentimentos e processos mentais (verbos estativos).
• Por exemplo:
• understand (entender)
• think (achar)
• know (saber)
• like (gostar
• love (amar)
• hate (odiar)
• want (querer)
I like my teacher – not (I’m liking my teacher)
I don’t know – not (*I’m not knowing)