4 tricks to differentiate between simple present and present continuous

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Something that can happen to us while learning English is having trouble choosing the best tense to express a fact. This can happen between the simple present and the present continuous. In this post we offer you four tricks to differentiate the simple present from the present continuous.




Simple present and present continuous: what's the difference?
Do you need some tips to differentiate between the simple present and the netherlands phone number list continuous? These two verb tenses can cause us some headaches if we try to translate them directly from our language or if we don't know how they are formed. Let's do a quick review below.


Present simple
It is used to talk about things or actions that we usually do every day. The typical example is daily routines or activities that we do on a daily basis, or with a certain regularity. Brushing our teeth, taking a shower, going to the office or school...

I work every day from 9 am to 6 pm .
As we see in the example, we are talking about something we do every day.