SENTENCE: The elephant is eating hay.
'is eating' is a present progressive according to my textbook. In my textbook, it says that a present progressive verb is made up of the present tense of the helping verb 'be' and the present participle of the main verb. What does this mean?

Respuesta :

Answer:

Present form of verb 'be' is 'is' or 'am' or 'are' and present participle of the main verb means -ing form of verb indicating continuous action.

Explanation:

present form