A verb is needed for the present progressive tense. Horses is a plural noun.
Example of horse as the subject of a sentence in the present progressive tense: The horses are galloping.
Eating is a present participle, which can be used as a gerund, an adjective, or a verb. When present participles are used as verbs, they create the progressive (continuous) forms and require the use of an auxiliary verb to show tense. Am/is/are eatingis the present progressive tense. The past progressive tense is was/were eating.
Present progressive is formed with am/is/are and a present participle (-ing form of a verb).Present progressive of study:I am studyingWe/You/They are studyingHe/She/It is studying
Standing is not past tense. It is the present participle of the verb "stand". Present participles require the use of auxiliary verbs to show tense. Examples: was/were standing (past progressive) am/is/are standing (present progressive) will be standing (future progressive) Stood is the past tense of stand.
To form a progressive tense use the helping verb to beand the present participle (the -ing form of the verb)Progressives can be in the present past and future and can also be perfectpresent progressive I am workingpast progressive I was workingfuture progressive I will be workingPerfect progressivespresent perfect progressive I have beenworkingpast perfect progressive I had been workingfuture perfect progressive I will have beenworkingFe Maria Finch BA English
The present progressive tense is formed using this structure:Subject + auxiliary verb "be" + present participle. So:I am workingYou/We/They are workingHe/She/It is workingThe present progressive tense is used to talk about actions that are happening now and actions that will be happening in the future.
The present continuous/it's also called present progressive. (At the moment , here and now + you can use it for picture descriptions.)
All progressive tenses (past, present, and future) and all perfect progressive tenses (past, present, and future) use a present participle.
There are two forms of the present perfect tense: simple present perfect (I have eaten) and progressive present perfect (I have been eating). Both forms use "have" or "has" with the past participle of the main verb to indicate an action that started in the past and has relevance to the present.
He eats a feast while the others are starving to death?This sentence has present simple - eatsand present contiuous - are starving.If you use present perfect and present contiuous/progressive the sentence would be:He has eaten a feats while the others are starving to death.
Depending on how you use the words some are already in the past tense. Got is the past tense of get. Present: I will get a dog. Past: I got a dog. With is a general term. It doesn't change in the past tense. Had is the past tense of has and had. Depending on which style of past you are using [progressive, perfect, progressive perfect, simple] will dictate how you use the word.
A symbol for tense in English grammar is the use of auxiliary verbs (e.g. "will" for future tense, "have" for perfect tense) or verb inflections (e.g. "-ing" for present progressive tense, "-ed" for past tense) to indicate the time of an action or event in relation to the present or to other events.
"is' is present tense. For past tense use was or were.