Spanish

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Spanish Verb Tenses Ch. 10-1
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• Simple Tenses
• (made up of one word)
• Present Indicative
• Preterite
• Compound Tenses
• (made up of more than one word)
• Baby Future
• Present Progressive

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• Present Progressive Tense
• is used to indicate that something is at present
  in progress.
• It is made up of 2 parts
• conjugated form of ESTAR
• present participle (the ing word)
• ie(Yo) estoy hablando ahora

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Conjugated forms of Estar estoy estamos estás
está están
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• Forming the present participle
• (regular)
• Drop the last two letters from the infinitive
  form of the verb.
• Add the appropriate endings
• Ar ando iehablando
• Er iendo iecomiendo
• Ir iendo ieescribiendo

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• Forming the present participle
• (irregular)
• Exception Er or Ir verbs whose stem end in a
  vowel leer leyendo
• 2. The verb IR - yendo

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• Forming the present participle
• (stem changing)
• IR verbs that have a stem change in the pres.
  ind. tense will reflect only a ONE LETTER stem
  change in the present participle of that verb.
• ie...servir (i) - sirviendo

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• Distinguishing the Present Progressive Tense
• The Present Progressive is used when the action
  is presently in progress.
• ie...Uds. están tomando apuntes.
• The Present Indicative is used when just making a
  general statement.
• ie...Yo le doy la camisa a Juan