Present Participles

Present participles dan Gerund juga diseubut sebagai bentuk ing dari kata kerja. Keduanya sama persis, tetapi berbeda penggunaanya dalam suatu kalimat.

Present Participles
Bentuk dasar Present Participle adalah : Verb+Ing, berikut contoh penggunaannya:

1. Dalam tenses bentuk Continous
Iam Working : Saya sedang bekerja
He was singing : Dia sedang bernyanyi
They have been walking : mereka sedang berjalan

2. Sesudah verbs of movement/position, dengan pola : Verb + Present tense
She went shopping
He lay looking up the cloud
She came running towads me
Kata kerja yang sering digunakan adalah :
Go shopping, go walking, Go skiing, go swimming, go fishing , go running, go dancing, go surfing

3. Sesudah verbs of perspection atau kata kerja yang menunjukkan aktifitas panca indera
Dengan rumus = Verb + object + Present participle
I heard someone singing
he saw his friend walking along the road
I can smell something burning

4. Digunakan sebagai adjective atau kata sifat
It was amazing film
Racing cars can go fast as 400kph
She was trapped inside the burning house

5. Digunakan bersama-sama dengan kata kerja spend dan waste
Don't waste time playing computer games
She spends two hours a day travelling to work
They spent the whole day shopping

6. Dengan kata kerja catch dan find
Don't let him catch you reading his letters

7. Untuk menggantikan kalimat/ bagian dari suatu kalimat
They went out into the snow, They laughed as they went
They went laughing out into the snow