• Why are you looking at me?
• They are working very hard today.
• It is raining now.
• What are you doing?

Prítomný priebehový čas používame najčastejšie s týmito príslovkami:

• NOW
• RIGHT NOW
• TODAY
• THIS WEEK
• THIS YEAR
• AT THE MOMENT
• AT PRESENT

• I knew I had forgotten my keys.

• My English is getting better. (! NIE gets)
• Your soup is getting colder. (! NIE gets)
• The population of this town is increasing very fast. (! NIE increases)

• I'm sure she will love teaching French in London.
• She hasn't answered the phone today. I expect she will come this afternoon.
• I think it will rain on Sunday. 

• I expect - I expect she will come this afternoon.
• (be) afraid
• (be) sure
• surely - It will surely pay. - Určite sa to vyplatí
• (I) think
• (I) don't think
• I suppose
• probably - She will probably be there.

• I have been to London.
• I have never had a lot of money.

V tomto použití sa často nachádzajú frázy ako This is the first / second time..., po ktorých umiestňujeme predprítomný čas.

• I knew I had forgotten my keys.

• My father got in the car, started the engine and looked at us.

Najprv nasadol do auta, potom ho naštartoval a neskôr sa na nás pozrel. - takto sa deje v skutočnosti odohrali.

Predstavme si inú situáciu: Prídeme do školy, tašku položíme na stôl, otvoríme ju, vybalíme si veci a v tom si všimneme, že sme kľúče nechali doma.

Všetky deje idú pekne za sebou, odohráva sa jeden dej za druhým, avšak dej "zabudnutia kľúčov" sa odohral pred všetkými ostatnými - preto pre tento konkrétny dej použijeme predminulý čas (.....I realized I had left my keys at home.)

• I’ve known John since 2005. (= dej začal v roku 2005 a stále trvá)
• I’ve worked in this recording studio for two months. (= dej začal pred dvoma mesiacmi a stále trvá)

• I've known her for five years.
• I've been knowing her for five years.

• I have been thinking about buying a car for a while.
• John has been reading that book for the last two hours.
• We've been waiting here for an hour. (We are waiting now.)

• We wait here for an  hour.
• We are waiting here for an hour.
• We are waiting here. (akonáhle do vety umiestníme AKO DLHO dej prebieha - spojíme prítomnosť s minulosťou, musíme použiť predprítomný čas)
• We have been waiting here for an hour.
Ak hovoríme o tom AKO DLHO sa niečo (doteraz) deje, kladieme si teda otázku HOW LONG  používame predprítomný čas priebehový.
• I've been eating for an hour. (= HOW LONG?)
• We've been playing a lot of hockey lately.
• How long have you been playing music?
Ak hovoríme o tom KOĽKO KRÁT sa niečo (doteraz) deje, kladieme si teda otázku HOW MUCH / HOW MANY / HOW MANY TIMES - používame predprítomný čas jednoduchý.
• I've eaten four oranges. (= HOW MANY?)
• We've played hockey four times this month. (= HOW MANY TIMES?)
• How many CDs have you played?

• I am reading an interesting book. I borrowed it from the library yesterday. (! NIE I had borrowed it from the library yesterday.) - nie je tu potreba použiť predminulý čas

• plánovaná budúcnosť - rozhodnutie padne pred momentom rozhovoru -> BE GOING TO
• neplánovaná budúcnosť - rozhodnutie padne ako reakcia na práve odohrávajúci sa dej v momente rozhovoru -> WILL

• predpoveď v budúcnosti podložené dôkazmi -> BE GOING TO
• predpoveď v budúcnosti nepodložené dôkazmi (subjektívna) -> WILL

• She'd been working in the garden. She was dead tired. (= dôraz na trvaní deja)
• She'd worked in the garden. It looked great. (= dôraz na výsledku deja)

• She had been playing football for 3 hours when they arrived. (= for 3 hours...)
• I'd heard the result many times before. (= many times...)

• When we came, they had been watching TV. (= prišli sme po tom, čo dopozerali TV - dej pozerania TV prebehol pred našim príchodom)

• When we came, they were watching TV. (= prišli sme a oni práve pozerali TV - dej prebiehal počas toho ako sme prišli)