When you listen to
“Present continuous” you think about an action that it’s happening at the
moment, right? Because it’s present continuous, right? So we can
use it just to talk about the present, right??? WRONG!!!
Right at the
beginning, at 0:11, Joey says:
“My character is coming out of his
coma!”
But he means that
this fact is going to happen in the next chapters of the soap opera “Days of
our lives”, not at that exactly minute.
Do you think this is weird?
I KNOW!! (*read it with Monica’s voice, please).
However, Present
Continuous can refer to the future, to express prearranged plans and events and
to show that we have already decided something. At 0:17 and 0:29 of the video,
Joey says, respectively:
“I’m getting a new brain.”
“Her brain is being transplanted
into my body.”
Again, he uses the
verbal tense to express a fact that it’s going to happen in the future. Monica
does the same, at 0:50, when she asks:
“Who are they killing off?”
But be careful: we use Present Continuous just to express arranged events. To predict something, use will, and to talk about plans which haven’t been arranged, use going to.
“It
will snow.”
“I’m
not sure, but I think I’m going to the theater later.”
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