hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton
in this lesson we're going to talk about American English grammar are you ready
let's begin we're talking about AM is R plus a verb that ends with ing now I'm
not just one verb but many verbs right walk run work play that sort of thing
okay but the verb must end with ing what does that do well that puts us in the
present continuous the present continues what is the present continuous do you
know I think you do but I'll tell you just in case
it just means now right the present continuous is now now I am teaching a
class on a video now that's what I'm doing okay teaching that
would be the verb okay we have what are you doing I'm reading so am we have am
contraction I am I'm reading read is the verb with ing on the end of it now
what's a verb with ing on the end of it it's a gerund german g e ru and d that's
what they're called okay so we have our jaren there but that's the present
continuous the person says I'm reading that means now where's Mike he's walking
the dog he is contraction Keys is is walking the verb is walk with ing n the
end of it gerund he's walking the dog the present
continuous now okay now did you know that we can also use this combination M
is or R with a verb ending with ing to speak in the future we can do that so we
can use it as now or to speak in the future so I'm not driving to work
tomorrow I'm not driving to work tomorrow or it could be I am driving to
work tomorrow that would work also right but we'll throw a negative in here so we
have M and the ing on the end of the verb drive and the future is tomorrow
now we have we're talking about more than one person so we're talking about
they they are contraction they're they're helping their mother move next
week okay so what do we have here we have our are right here helping help is
a verb ing at the end of it helping their mother move means move from one
place she was living in to a new place she will be living in her she has been
living in to where she will be living move her home okay
mother moved next week the next week is in the future right okay
now let's move on with this and talk some more now one thing we don't want to
do here is get confused between the present continuous like we were talking
about now and he's now basically but we can also use the same words change the
sentence and we can be talking about the future okay we discuss that but let's
not get confused between this present continue
and the simple present here's the simple present no look at the difference
basically the differences here the way we're using these sentences not all
sentences but for what we're talking about in this lesson the present
continuous is used normally for people the way we're using them in these
sentences alright so let's look at these sentences we're going to the mall
tomorrow simple sentence no big deal we are going to the mall tomorrow so
here we have our going ing the verb go to the mall shopping tomorrow that's in
the future what time are you leaving what time are you leaving ok we have our
are leaving the verb ok now let's go down to the simple present and see what
we can how we can compare these oK we've got top 4 timetables and schedules the
simple present would fit in four time schedules and time to time you'd
schedules and timetables remember present continuous normally for people
we're talking about something people are doing right here we're talking about
schedules time schedules timetables ok so we have the mall opens at 8:30 the
mall where we're going to go shopping opens at 8:30 this is the simple present
but it's in the future right ok now what time does the bus leave we're asking the
question about something in the future and we've got opens and does leave here
we have our verb leave and that concludes this lesson thank you for
watching this video and I look forward to seeing you
at our next lessons goodbye for now