PRESENT SIMPLE/ PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

PRESENT SIMPLE:
DEF: EVERY DAY ACTION, STATE, HABIT
FREQUENCY ADVERBS: ALWAYS, NEVER,
SOMETIMES, FROM TIME TO TIME, AT TIMES,
HARDLY EVER, OFTEN,SELDOM, RARELY,
GENERALLY, USUALLY, NORMALLY
-HEADLINES, COOKING INSTRUCTIONS,
STAGE DIRECTIONS, SPORT COMMENTARIES,
STREET DIRECTIONS
THE MURDERER STRIKES AGAIN!
GO STRAIGHT AHEAD AND THEN TURN LEFT.
- GENERAL TRUTH:
PIGS CANT FLY!
WATER BOILS AT 100 DEGREES.
FUTURE VALUE: TIMETABLES/SCHEDULES
THE TRAIN LEAVES AT 8 P.M. (TRENUL VA
PLECA)
THE MEETING STARTS AT 5. (INTALNIREA VA
AVEA LOC LA...)

PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
AN ACTION HAPPENING AT THE MOMENT OF
SPEAKING (NOW)
I AM SPEAKING NOW.
Sb+ aux. To be + vb + ing
FUTURE VALUE: PERSONAL PLANS (CERTAIN
TO HAPPEN)
I AM GOING TO THE MOUNTAINS
TOMORROW.
Im going to go to the mountains.(intention)
GOING TO special future form which
expresses personal plans as well but mostly
intentions. (they are less certain than the
plans in present progressive).
Im going to do my homework.
Im doing my homework.
DEVELOPMENT: ITS GETTING DARKER AND
DARKER OUTSIDE.
IF IT IS USED WITH ADVERBS OF PRESENT
SIMPLE (ALWAYS, OFTEN...) IT SHOWS AN
IRRITATING ACTION.

My sister is always talking too much!