FOCUS : THE PRESENT / TODAY / NOW
HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE OCCURING AT THE TIME WE SPEAK / WRITE? WE USE THE PRESENT TENSE . . .
There are
four present tenses in English. Use the present tense to talk about something
that is going on now or that is true now and any time.
- Simple present to express habits and general truths.
- Present continuous to talk about
an action happening now.
- Present perfect for repeated
actions, actions where the time is not important, and actions that began
in the past but are not finished yet.
- Present perfect continuous to
talk about ongoing actions where both the process and the result are important.
