http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aFootball+tag%3aPresent+continuousSearch results for 'tag:Football tag:Present continuous' matching tags 'Football' and 'Present continuous'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenPastContinuous-TenseSimple/dvwzm/post.htm#272624Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:58:52 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:272624pieanne Voltaire101 wrote I can differe make the difference between the present continuous tense and the simple present tense The difference is The simple present tense is used for a repeated or habitual action that happens always or often or usually In these cases you ll have an adverb or a complement that tells you you have to use it Or you use it to express truths that cannot be changed water boils at 100 The present continuous tense is used for an action that is still continuing now Rather an action that is happening right now No continuing for the present continuous tense but I can t differe make the difference between the past continuous tense and the simple past tense When we use the past continuous tense we use it as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson 2 A year ago I was working in London And we use the simple past tense as these sentences 1 The thief picked his pocket 2 I passed the river yesterday There is no context to all of these sentences and context gives you the hint for the tense you have to use We can also use the simple past tense with the past continuous tense as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room 2 While we were having supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we were having supper 4 Harry did his homework while the other boys were playing football ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Ok what is the problem If I say 1 The teacher gave us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room Looks as if the teacher gave you a lesson during the very short time it took the little dog to walk into the room 10 seconds 2 While we had supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we had supper 4 Hrry did his homework while the other boys played football When to use the simple past tense and when to use the present cotinuous tense http://www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenPastContinuous-TenseSimple/dvwcj/post.htmTue, 26 Sep 2006 15:48:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:272570voltaire101I can differe between the present continuous tense and the simple present tense The diference is Th simple present tense is used for a repeated or habitual action that happen always or often or usually Th present cotinuous tense is used for an action that is still contiuing now but I can t differe between the past continuous tense and the simple past tens When we use the past cotinuous tense we use it as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson 2 A year ago I was working in London And we use the simple past tense as these sentences 1 The thief picked his pocket 2 I passed the river yesterday We can also use the simple past tense with the past cotinuous tense as these sentences 1 The teacher was giving us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room 2 While we were having supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we were having supper 4 Hrry did his homework while the other boys were playing football ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Ok what is the problem If I say 1 The teacher gave us a lesson when a little dog walked into the room 2 While we had supper all the lights went out 3 All the lights went out while we had supper 4 Hrry did his homework while the other boys played football When to use the simple past tense and when to use the present cotinuous tense http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionPastPerfectContinuous/cnjvd/post.htmWed, 07 Jun 2006 20:58:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:233583penicillinHello Why did we put here Past Perfect Continuous not Present Continuous It was obvious that they had been playing football in the park Why did we put here Past Perfect not Present Perfect As soon as I saw her I relised we had met before Thanks amp Regardshttp://www.englishforums.com/English/PresentTensePastTense/nvmh/post.htm#65236Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:15:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:65236klavierMrM All are incorrect verb tenses Jack The simple present tense is NOT used for events which occur at the moment of speaking for now we use the present continuous I have a book that says that it s possible to use the simple present at the moment of speaking for ex when a commentator is reporting a football game live Beckam kicks the ball and scores