Date of Presentation
7-17-2015
Name of Conference
American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese
Date of Conference
7-2015
Location of Conference
Denver, Colorado
Document Type
Conference Presentation
Department
Modern Languages and Literatures
Abstract
Once students are exposed to the Spanish progressive, they often start generalizing –ndo to every context where –ing occurs in English, producing ungrammatical structures such as me gusta nadando and el traje nadando. Expressing –ing in Spanish is actually quite complicated and depends on whether -ing functions as a verb, adverb, noun, or adjective. Even the Spanish progressive causes problems for students since it differs in use from the English progressive. In this presentation I hope to shed some light on the equivalents of –ing in Spanish.
Recommended Citation
Orf, Amy S., "The Thing about -ing" (2015). Conference Presentations. 142.
https://commons.nmu.edu/facwork_conferencepresentations/142