Yes, "listening" is a verb. It is the action of paying attention and hearing sounds or speech.
The complete progressive verb in the phrase is "was listening." This verb form indicates an ongoing action that was happening in the past.
"Listening" is not an adverb; it is a present participle form of the verb "listen." Adverbs typically modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, but in this case, "listening" is functioning as a verb or a noun in a sentence.
It means the verb or verb phrase is in the past tense form and shows us that something happened in the past ie yesterday, last week, last year etc.present - I go to school everyday.past - I went to school. (Went is the past form of go)present - I am listening to music.past - I was listening to music.( was listening is the past form of the verb phrase am listening)
The tense of "was listening" is past continuous, also known as past progressive. It is formed by using the past tense of "to be" (was) and the present participle of the main verb (listening).
"Escuchando" in Spanish means "listening" in English. It is the present participle form of the verb "escuchar," which means "to listen."
The complete progressive verb in the phrase is "was listening." This verb form indicates an ongoing action that was happening in the past.
"Listening" is not an adverb; it is a present participle form of the verb "listen." Adverbs typically modify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs, but in this case, "listening" is functioning as a verb or a noun in a sentence.
The noun forms of the verb to listen are listener and the gerund, listening.
It means the verb or verb phrase is in the past tense form and shows us that something happened in the past ie yesterday, last week, last year etc.present - I go to school everyday.past - I went to school. (Went is the past form of go)present - I am listening to music.past - I was listening to music.( was listening is the past form of the verb phrase am listening)
No, it is not a preposition. It is a verb form, or a noun (gerund). It can also be an adjective (listening post).
listen is a action verb
In American English, "audience" takes a singular verb, so the correct form would be "The audience was listening." In British English, however, collective nouns like "audience" often take a plural verb, and "The audience were listening" would be correct.
The noun forms of the verb to listen are listener and the gerund, listening.
listening (noun) = hakshavah (הקשבה)as a verb, it depends on the person:she is listening = hi makshiva (היא מקשיבה)we are listening = anachnu makshivim (אנחנו מקשיבים)
When you add -ing to any verb you get the present participle form:walk - walking listen - listening glisten - glistening
Past continuous is formed with -- was/were + present participle. The present participle of any verb is verb + ing eg walking talking listening eating etc.So a past continuous verb would be:was talking or were eatingwasn't listening or weren't listening. -- negative formPast continuous is used to talk about a state or action that was in progress in the past, this state or action continued for a period but is now finished.It was raining when I left the house this morning.
i know what it is but i am listening to music and its fun