Simple Present vs Present Progressive: English Grammar you can Master

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I cook soup. Now, English has a lot of verb  tenses. ‘I cook soup’ is simple present and we  
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can use this to mean something general. I cook  soup. I cook eggs. I don't cook casseroles. If  
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I say, ‘I'm cooking soup’. Now we've got present  progressive, that means right now, there's a start  
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to it, an end to it, and I am cooking chicken  noodle soup. So we can think of simple present  
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as something we can use to describe something in  general. For example, ‘I love you’. In general,  
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there's no start, there's no end. But if I say,  ‘I'm loving this cooler weather'. That means,  
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right now, there is a start, there is an end.  The cool weather won't last forever, and I  
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might get tired of it, but right now, present  progressive, I am loving this cool weather.
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