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Present Simple or Present Continuous | Choose the Correct Form
Present Simple or Present Continuous advanced grammar practice. This interactive choose-the-correct-form exercise helps English learners practise stative verbs, temporary trends, current changes, general facts and contextual tense choice in news-style sentences.

Present Simple or Present Continuous? Choose the correct form.

1. Most emergency food boxes CONTAIN / ARE CONTAINING pantry staples such as rice, pasta, canned beans and cereal.

2. School districts SLOWLY BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND / ARE SLOWLY BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND how quickly a failed bus-tracking app can disrupt the morning commute for thousands of families.

3. What DO YOU THINK / ARE YOU THINKING of the new rule requiring stores to provide one employee for every three self-checkout stations?

4. Some applicants DON'T REALIZE / AREN'T REALIZING that below-market rent in Manhattan can still mean paying well over $2,000 a month.

5. That restaurant can't really have racked up thirteen health-code violations in a single inspection! You IMAGINE / ARE IMAGINING things!

6. Several retailers report that they HAVE / ARE HAVING difficulty meeting the new staffing requirements without closing some of their self-checkout lanes.

7. No in-person classes for me this week. I DO / AM DOING remote learning while the school checks my vaccination records.

8. At $1,517 a month, the studio APPEARS / IS APPEARING relatively cheap by Manhattan standards, although applicants still have to meet strict income requirements.

9. The grocery chain CONSIDERS / IS CONSIDERING closing several underperforming locations as operating costs continue to rise.

10. DOES THIS BUILDING BELONG / IS THIS BUILDING BELONGING to the local housing authority, or is it privately owned?