PRE PROF: THE CONTINUOUS ASPECT

I'm just finishing some work. I'll call you back later.

• An action in progress at the moment of speaking.

• A current trend.

• An action around the time of speaking.

More and more people are doing volunteer work.

• An action around the time of speaking.

• An action at the moment of sepaking.

• A current trend.

My boss is always asking me to stay late after work.

• A current trend.

• A situation that happens regularly and is irritating.

• An action in progress at the time of speaking.

I've been waiting here for over an hour.

• A continuous past action that has an effect on the present.

• An action that started in the past and still continuing.

• An action repeated in the past and continues to be repeated now.

We've been going to that theater for over ten years.

• A continuous past action that has an effect on the present.

• An action that started in the past and is still continuing.

• An action that was repeated in the past and continues to be repeated now.

I'm hot because I've been running.

• A continuous past action that has an effect on the present.

• An action that started in the pastand is still continuoing.

• An action that was repeated in the past and continues to be repeated now.

She'd been waiting for hours when the cab arrived.

• An action that was repeated up to a point in the past.

• Something that was in progress up to a point in the past

We'd been complaining about the problem for days.

• An action that was repeated up to a certain point in the past.

• Something that was in progress at a certain point in the past.

This time, next week, we'll be lying on the beach.

• Something we expect to be repepated around a particular time in the future.

• Something we expect to be happening at a particular time in the future.

I'll be coming to soccer practice every week.

• Something we expect to be repeated around a particular time in the future.

• Something we expect to be happening at a particular time in the future.