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Explanation.

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Slightly harder.

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Level 330 - Lower Intermediate / Grammar Topics / Present Continuous 1

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Click and drag

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Present continuous - exercises. English verb exercises: present progressive exercises. Elementary and intermediate level. esl

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Mixed Exercise 2

Here's another present continuous exercise to practice making all forms of the English tense. Another exercise! Keep going - remember if you keep practising, making the tenses will become automatic. (Reading helps with this too - you need to do both reading and exercises to start to get a 'feeling' for when something is wrong).

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Here's another present continuous exercise to practice making all forms of the English tense. Another exercise! Keep going - remember if you keep practising, making the tenses will become automatic. (Reading helps with this too - you need to do both reading and exercises to start to get a 'feeling' for when something is wrong).

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Gives examples of the sounds.

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About the chart

Pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide / round - top to bottom, jaw closed / open).

Diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.

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About the chart Pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide / round - top to bottom, jaw closed / open). Diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound. Try some pronunciation activities Telephone number pronunciation What's the pronunciation?

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Adjectives

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We add -er to a short adjective to form its comparative, and -est to form its superlative. We sometimes double the final letter of the adjective when we do this:

Sometimes, however, we don't double the final letter:

To understand the rule that can help us spell these words correctly, we first need to know what vowels and consonants are:

vowels = a e i o u;
consonants are all other letters (b c d f g, etc).

This is the rule:

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Spelling: thinner or thiner? When to double a consonant before adding -er or -est

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We are starting a trial of free online classes using the Google Classroom app to give you a fun and interactive way to improve your English. We add -er to a short adjective to form its comparative, and -est to form its superlative.

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Adding -ed and -ing to verbs

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We add -ing to a verb to form its present participle, and -ed to regular verbs to form the past simple. When doing this, we sometimes double the last letter of the verb, as in these examples:

Sometimes, however, we don't double the last letter, as with the verb visit:

To understand this spelling rule, it's first necessary to know the meaning of vowel and consonant:

vowels = a e i o u
consonants are all other letters ( b c d f g, etc).

The rule

We double the final letter when a one-syllable verb ends in consonant + vowel + consonant.*

stop, rob, sit

We double the final letter when a word has more than one syllable, and when the final syllable is stressed in speech.

beGIN, preFER

If the final syllable is not stressed, we do not double the final letter.

LISten, HAPpen

In British English, travel and cancel are exceptions to this rule:

travel, travelling, travelled; cancel, cancelling, cancelled.

* We do not double the final letter when two vowels come directly before it:

See also:
Spelling: when to double a consonant before adding -er or -est to an adjective >>

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Spelling: when to double a consonant before adding -ed or -ing to a verb

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We add -ing to a verb to form its present participle, and -ed to regular verbs to form the past simple.