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Question
The table below shows different uses or meanings of the present progressive. Match the verbs in the previous sentences with the uses or meanings they convey.
| a. | Something pre-arranged or a fixed plan | ______ |
| b. | Insistence | ______ |
| c. | Annoyance | ______ |
| d. | Repeated action | ______ |
| e. | Some development or change | ______ |
| f. | Emphatic refusal | ______ |
| g. | Something happening ‘around now’ | ______ |
| h. | An action just starting. | ______ |
| i. | Temporary action not necessarily taking place at the moment of speaking. | ______ |
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Solution
| a. | Something pre-arranged or a fixed plan | is leaving |
| b. | Insistence | are, wearing |
| c. | Annoyance | are |
| d. | Repeated action | am eating |
| e. | Some development or change | are rising |
| f. | Emphatic refusal | am, doing |
| g. | Something happening ‘around now’ | writing |
| h. | An action just starting. | are getting, am coming |
| i. | Temporary action not necessarily taking place at the moment of speaking. | am eating |
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Chapter 2: Tenses (Integrated Grammar practice 1) - Exercise [Page 14]
