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Part 5
Units 1519
Unit 15
Present Progressive
Present Progressive / Continuous
Form and Use
Singular
Plural
1
I am eating rice.
We are eating rice.
2
You are eating rice.
You are eating rice.
3
He is eating rice.
She is eating rice.
It is cooking the rice.
They are eating rice.
Form = BE + VERBING
Use = RIGHT NOW; continuing, in progress
I study at DCCC. I am studying at DCCC. Sometimes, both are correct, but the
second one emphasizes that you will change and do something else.
I am working at McDonalds. I work for the government.
Negatives = Put NOT after the first helping verb
Unit 16
Questions
• Same rules
– Negatives = put not after first helping verb (BE)
– Yes/No = Move the first helping verb (BE) in front
of the subject
– WH = Make a yes/no question and change the
answer to the WH-word, then put the Wh-word in
front of the sentence.
Unit 17
Imperatives
• Uses the BASE FORM (be, eat, go)
• Negative = DON’T be, don’t eat, don’t go
• Please (everyone likes it; nobody uses it)
• Use for orders, directions, requests, warnings
Unit 18
Can / Could
• Like all modals, they are ALWAYS followed by
the BASE FORM
• They are HELPING VERBS (modals)
– NOT goes after the first helping verb
– Move helping verb to in front of the subject
More Can / Could
• This modal has a past form
– I can swim every day. I could swim when I was
seven years old.
– (other modals have a different form that you will
learn later)
• I should study harder.
• I should have studied harder.
• (Also for possibility)
– It could rain this afternoon.
Unit 19 - Suggestions
Let’s / Why don’t we…?
• Let’s = we should
– (You and me) = we should BASE FORM
• Why don’t we = we should
– Why don’t I/you/they… ? I/you/they should
– Why doesn’t she…? She should
• This idiom can even be used with BE
– We aren’t nice.
– Why aren’t we nice? Because we are orphans.
– Why don’t we be nice? You’re right. We should be nice.