What's the difference between "Present Progressive", "Present Continuous" and "Immediate Present"?

Answer 1

This is AMAZING to me. They've done it again!

I'm a spanish teacher and I know all of the tenses but it seems that they've decided to rename them again. This has happened in the recent past too.

I'm an electronics engineer and also a windows programmer. Funny how things that I understood deeply 20 years ago are now called many (much too many to mention) things today. Different names, but the same identical thing. Somebody got a PHd. out of that but companies went bust when they changed the language. Seems it's happening yet again.

Present progressive is now. "I speak," I do. That's it. Known in my day as the present tense. To me that makes more sense. ahh - "present progressive" - present tense. Learn that and shut-up about the "present progressive tense."

Present continuous is what should be called be gerands. This is eazy. Words that end in "ing" in English and other forms in grammer. Swimming is fun - there ya go. There's an afgument going on about how a verb (swimming) can be used as a noun in this example sentence but we'll let it to the so called "experts" to battle this out. To me, this "present continuous" tense is nothing more than (in english) words that end in "ing." Why make it more crazy than that??

Immediate present is just another fancy name for the present tense (I wonder who got another PHd. for renaming that!).

It bothers me that in industry some dude can just rename something that already exit and get a PHd. for doing something that simple and now it shows up here in languages too. Where does this **** end!

Answer 2

Present progressive and present continuous are two terms for the form that shows that the action is ongoing at the moment of speaking: present tense of "be" + the present participle (-ing form)

Immediate present is not a term I'm really familiar with, but it sounds to me to express the same thing as the other two.

Answer 3

For most students of English, native speakers and even some teachers this can be quite a difficult thing to understand! To begin clarifying this for you, ‘present’ is a tense, but both ‘continuous’ and ‘progressive’ are not tenses, they are grammatical aspects. Tenses are used to mark when an action happens whereas aspects give temporal information like duration, completion, or frequency. Therefore, we can see that in both instances, the action is happening now, but it it is the grammatical aspect of both ‘continuous’ and ‘progressive’ that differs.

As stated above, there is no distinction between these two aspects in the English language and both the “Present Continuous” and “Present Progressive” terms are used interchangeably. In other languages, however, the distinction is important.

In the Chinese language, we’ll use the following two expressions to discuss the differences between the two aspects.

1. I am putting on clothes. (Present Progressive)

2. I am wearing clothes. (Present Continuous)

In the first sentence, the subject is actively putting on clothes whereas in the second sentence the subject is only wearing them. The first sentence is expressing that the action of putting on clothes in still in progress. On the other hand, the second sentence shows the state of the subject. I.e. that the subject is wearing clothes. In English, however, this distinction isn’t used and it isn’t necessary to teach this distinction to ESL students. Trying to explain the difference between the two to English learners isn’t necessary and will only confuse the students.That´s why they tell them they are the same.

Answer 4

present progressive: I AM GOING
present continuous: I GO
immediate present: I DO GO

Answer 5

present progressive and continuous are the same.It shows the action that is taking place at the time of speaking. LIKE:I'm typing now.
but Immediate present is sth like simplepresent that occures normally Like : it rains.It gets dark.It sticks.

hope it helps

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Interesting topic!

Answer 8

Wanted to ask this question too this morning