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I forget your telephone number.
I hear you are leaving for England?
I am told she returned from France last week.
In object clauses after to see (to), to take care, and to make (be) sure.
I’ll see that the lady is properly looked after.
He will take care that no one interferes with them.
In exclamatory and interrogative sentences.
My dear, how you throw about your money!
Why do you talk like that to me?
To indicate a future action which is certain to take place according to a timetable, programme, schedule, command or arrangement worked out for a person or persons officially. In this case the sentence usually contains an indication of time.
His ship sails tomorrow.
Can you tell me what time the game starts today, please?
When does Tom return from honeymoon?
To express immediate future in some special questions.
What do we do next?
Where do we go now?
What happens next?
With the verb say, when we are asking about or quoting from books, notices or very recently received letters.
What does that letter say?
I see you have got a letter from Ann. What does she say?
Shakespeare says,» Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE
I. The formation of the Present Continuous Tense
1. The Present Continuous is formed by means of the Present Indefinite of the auxiliary verb to be and Participle I of the notional verb.
2. In the interrogative from the auxiliary verb is placed before the subject. In the negative form the negative particle not is placed after the auxiliary verb.
Affirmative Interrogative Negative
I am reading am I reading? I am not reading
He is reading is he reading? He is not reading
She is reading is she reading? She is not reading
We are reading are we reading? We are not reading
You are reading are you reading? You are not reading
They are reading are they reading? They are not reading
3. The contracted affirmative forms are:
I’m reading
She’s reading
We’re reading
4. The contracted negative forms are:
She isn’t reading
We aren’t reading
5. The negative- interrogative forms are:
Am I not reading?
Is she not reading?
Isn’t she reading?
Are you not reading?
Aren’t you reading?
II. SPELLING NOTES
1. When a verb ends in a single e, this e is dropped before in:
Argue, arguing
Hate, hating
Love, loving
Except after age, dye and singe:
Ageing
Dyeing
Singeing
and verbs ending in ее:
agree, agreeing
see, seeing
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