Learning Tenses - Step Two - Present Continuous

Present Continuous .

• PC generally refers to actions which are in progress at the moment
  

-They can be temporary. / I'm staying in a hotel until I find a flat. /

-They can be actually in progress. / The dog is sleeping on our bed /

-Or the can be generally in progress but not actually happening at the moment . / I'm learning to drive. /

• Temporary situations / Are you enjoying you stay here? /
• Repeated actions / My car has broken down, so I am walking to work these days /
• Complaints about annoying habits / You are always making snide remarks about my cooking / Other possible adverbs are: constantly, continually, forever
• With verbs describng change and development / The weather is getting worse /, / More and more people are giving up smoking/
  

Here you can find more about PC:

http://www.speakspeak.com/html/d3a001_grammar_beginners_present_simple_continuous.htm

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html



Compare Present Simple with Present Continuous :)