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The Present Continuous Tense

We use the present continuous tense to express an action that

is going on while we are speaking about it.

Examples: 1. I am walking my dog now.

2. Anand and his parents are going to the hospital.

3. She is shifting to a new house.

C. Fill in the blanks with the present continuous tense form of the verbs given in the
brackets.

1. Buddy milk. (is / are, drink)

2. I at Buddy. (am / is, look)

3. She food for her neighbours. (are / is, cook)

4. The students in the ground. (are / is, play)

Word Wise • Synonyms

We know that a synonym is a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as
another word in the language.

Examples: joyful — happy; huge — vast

A. Colour the trees that have synonyms.

watch talk laugh new disliked
see friendly hated

little surprised rich
tiny amazed wealthy

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