I am practicing the simple present and present progressive tenses on the ego4u.com website. During the first week, my exercise was to work on writing questions. I practiced these tenses in class on February 22nd, 2008. The present progressive emphasizes the course or duration of an action and is also known as the present continuous. It uses "am" with the personal pronoun "I" and "is" with singular subjects like "he", "she", and "it". "Are" is used with plural subjects like "you", "we", and "they". To form negatives, "not" is placed between the form of "be" and the main verb. Questions are formed by swapping the subject