List of authors quoted

1. Cronin, A. J. The Citadel / A.J. Cronin. – Moscow, 2003.

2. Maugham, W. S. Theatre / W.S. Maugham. – Moscow, 2006.

3. Murdoch, I. A Word Child / I. A. Murdoch. – Middlesex, 1975.

4. O’Brien, E. Country Girls / E. O’Brien. – Moscow, 1982.

5. Priestly, J. B. Angel pavement / J. B. Priestly. – Moscow, 1974.

6. Shaw B. Pygmalion / B. Shaw. – Moscow, 1972.

7. Shaw B. Four Plays / B. Shaw. – Moscow, 1952.

Appendix 1

Spelling of Participle I

Participle I of both regular and irregular verbs is composed by adding the suffix –ing to the stem of the verb. The following rules of spelling are observed:

1) The mute –e is dropped:

skate-skating but: ski- skiing

place-placing

Note1. The verbs in – ee, -oe, -ye retain –e:

disagree-disagreeing

dye-dyeing

Note2. The mute –e is retained when it is necessary to distinguish two different verbs:

sing – singing ting – tinging (звенеть)

singe – singeing (опаливать) tinge- tingeing (оттенять)

Note3. Very few verbs retain the mute –e as an exception:

age – ageing

2) Any final consonant is doubled when it is preceded by a single stressed vowel:

stop-stopping prefer-preferring

but: develop-developing steer – steering

root- rooting

Note4. The final consonant is also doubled in the following verbs:

program – programming

handicap – handicapping

kidnap – kidnapping

format – formatting

diagram – diagramming

bias – biassing (=biasing)

combat – combatting (=combating)

focus – focussing (=focusing)

worship – worshipping

3) The final –l is doubled when it is preceded by a single vowel (in BrE):

travel – travelling control – controlling

but: reveal – revealing

4) Verbs ending in –ie are formed in the following way:

lie-lying

die – dying

vie – vying

hie – hying

tie - tying

Appendix 2

Special cases when the progressive tenses occur

• What do you want? – Что надо? ^[9,15]

What are you wanting? – Что (тебе) понадобилось? ^[16]

What were you wanting? – Что Вам было нужно? (Что Вы хотели?) ^[15,10]

Are you wanting a smack? – Что, шлепка захотел? ^[11]

Keep in touch, Mr. Rosnovsky. I’ ll be wanting to talk to you. ^[11]

Мне нужно будет…

• I’ m forgetting (literary)– Я чуть не забыл! ^[16]

Are you forgetting your manners? – Что, забыл, как надо себя вести? ^[16]

Aren’t you forgetting something? (used to tell someone that they have forgotten to consider something important) – А ты ничего не забыл? ^[8]

• to be looking to do smth – собираться, намереваться что-либо сделать ^[,8,9,15]

• be going (informal) – to be available:

There just aren’t any jobs going in this area.

В этих местах не найдешь ни одной работы. ^[9,15]

• to be going on (for) smth – to be nearly a particular age, time etc:

It was going on for midnight.

Дело шло к полуночи. ^[9,15]

• I tell you…– говорю вам …^[11]

I’ m telling you … – послушайте, …^[11]

• He is being sick (AmE)= He is vomiting (BrE) ^[11]

Contents

Introduction………………………………………………………………………...3

§ 1.1. The Present Continuous…………………………..……………………….....4

Exercises……………………………………………………………………………9

§ 1.2. The Present Continuous vs. the Present Indefinite…………………………14

Exercises………………………………………………………………………….16

§ 1.3. The Present Continuous vs. the Present Indefinite (stylistic difference)….. 18

Exercises…………………………………………………………………………..19

Revision Test……………………………………………………………………...21

§ 2.1. The Future Continuous………………………………..……………………22

§ 2.2. The Future Continuous vs. the Present Continuous……...………………...23

Exercises…………………………………………………………………………..24

§ 3.1. The Present Perfect Continuous…..………………………………………..26

§ 3.2. The Present Perfect Continuous vs. the Present Perfect…………………....27

Exercises………..…………………………………………………………………28

§ 4.1. The Past Continuous…………...………………………………………..….30

§ 4.2. The Past Continuous vs. the Past Indefinite…………...……………...……31

Exercises………………………………………………………………..…………33

§ 4.3. The Past Continuous vs. the Present Perfect Continuous…………...…..….36

Exercises……………………………………………………………………..……36

Revision Test…………………………………………………………………...…37

Answers to Exercises………………………………...……………………………39

Sources…………………………………………………………………………....44

Appendix 1 ……………………….………………………………………………46

Appendix2…………….………………………………………………………......47

CONTINUOUS ASPECT: REFERENCE AND PRACTICE

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ГАЛИЦКАЯ Светлана Ювенальевна

ДРУЖИНИН Андрей Сергеевич

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