The document discusses progressive tenses in English grammar. It explains that progressive tenses use a form of "to be" plus the present participle (-ing form) of a verb to express ongoing or continuous action. It provides examples of forming the present, past, and future progressive tenses in the first, second, and third person. It also discusses the uses of each progressive tense and includes examples. Finally, it briefly covers auxiliary verbs, question forms, and yes/no tags.

1. BIU 3022
ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2
MR SASIGARAN A/L MONEYAM
GROUP MEMBERS :
NOR FATIHAH BINTI HASSAN D20111047402
MOHD TAMIMI BIN SARINGAT D20111047453
ATIKAH BINTI ABDULLAH D20111047549
ZAKIAH BINTI MARKAM D20111047505
NURUL SAFIZA BINTI ROSLAN D20111047511

2. PROGRESSIVE TENSES
• a tense of verbs used in describing
action that is on-going
• a grammatical category of verbs used
to express distinctions of time
• Form the progressive tenses by
adding a form of to be to present
participle (-ing) form of a verb

3. • First person ( I am hearing , we are hearing)
• Second person (you are hearing)
Present
progressive tense
• Third person ( he,she and it is hearing ,they are hearing)
• First person ( I was hearing , we were hearing)
Past progressive
• Second person (you were hearing)
tense • Third person ( he,she and it was hearing , they were hearing)
• First person ( I will be hearing, we will be hearing)
• Second person (you will be hearing)
Future • Third person ( he, she and it will be hearing ,they will be hearing)
progressive tense

4. Present Progressive tense
• Present progressive tense describes an action
that is happening right now.
• The –ing form of a verb is call the present
participle.
• We use the present participle with am , is or
are to make the present progressive tense.

5. • The following shows how to form the Present
Progressive tense:
i. am + verb +-ing
 I am sitting in class now.
ii. is + verb+-ing
 Sofia is sitting in class now.
iii. are + verb+-ing
 Sofia and I are sitting in class now.

6. The Present Progressive Tense is used for :
1) Action taking place in the moment of speaking
Example : It is raining heavily.
2) Action taking place only for a limited period of
time
Example : I am leaving town for a week.
3) Action arranged for the future
Example : They are taking arts lesson this
December.

7. Past Progressive tense
1) You use the Past Progressive tense when you
refer to :
an action that happened at a specific time in
the past.
an action that happened over a period of
time.
E.g.(i) I started reading the novel at 8 p.m.
last night.
(ii) I was reading the novel from 8 p.m.
until 10 p.m. last night.

8. 2) The Past Progressive tense is formed with
was/were + veb +-ing. It is normally used
with words like while, when and as. Here are
some examples :
While I was walking home, it stopped raining.
 The photographer was taking pictures when
we arrived.
As the men were approaching the house, the
dogs started to bark.

9. 3) The past progressive tense is used for :
i. Action going on at a certain time in the past.
Examples : They were attending a conference in
Kuala Lumpur last week.
ii) Two actions taking place at the same time (in
the past).
Example : I was eating my lunch when my parents
were watching television.
iii) Action in the past that is interrupted by another
action.
Example : He was sleeping when his friend knocked
the door.

10. Future Progressive tense
1) You use the Future Progressive tense when you
talk about future plans that you are certain of .
 e.g. I am cooking fish curry tonight.
 Note : You are certain of this because you have
already bought the fish and the ingredients.
2) Other example :
 She is going to a rock concert tonight.
 Helena is visiting a friend in the hospital this
evening.
 It is going to be cold in Korea next month.
 Dad will be working all the day tomorrow.

11. 3) The future progressive tense is used for :
i) A continuous action in the future which is
interrupted by a time or by another.
Example : At eight o’clock, I’ll be eating dinner.
ii) A complete action in the future that will
happen in the normal course of events.
Example: The Government will be making a
statement later.
iii) To make a guess about the present.
Example: My mother will be working now.

12. Auxiliary Verbs be, have, do
• The auxiliary form are used before the
main verb.
• These forms can also function as main
verbs.
• The purpose of these auxiliary verbs is to
change time and significance.

13. to be to have to do
• She is the • Sarah has • I do my
prettiest girl bought a laundry
in campus. new car. twice a week
• They are • I have a new • Oh no… he
going home pet. does it
soon. • They had again!
• It was moved to • Her children
raining Penang ten did well in
yesterday. years ago. the drawing
contest last
year.

14. Question Forms
• There are are various question forms like WH
questions and Yes/No tags.
Wh-forms How to use it?
what To get more information about something
when To ask about the time something happened or will happen
where To ask questions about place or position
which To ask for information about one of a limited number of things
who/whom To enquire about someone’s identity
whose To ask about possession
why To ask for a reason
how To ask about the way in which something is done

15. Yes / No Tags
• These tags are questions which require short
answer elicits using yes or no.
• For example:
Q: Architects design buildings, don’t they?
A: Yes, they do.
 Q: Architects design clothes, don’t they?
A: No, they don’t.

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