More Practice with the Continuous Tense

Study the sentences in the table below.

Some of the sentences are in the continuous tense. The words that form the continuous tense have been highlighted for you. Think of them as "one big verb." Notice how the continuous tense is formed by the word "is" (or one of its many conjugations) followed by an "-ing verb."
Some of the sentences are equative sentences. In these cases, the word that follows "is" is always an adjective or noun. That adjective or noun is the complement of the sentence.


1	Anthony is fishing.	SV	intransitive
2	Ben is a genius.	S=C	equative
3	I am working ~~right now~~.	SV	intransitive
4	I am building a website.	SVO	transitive
5	The baby is an angel.	S=C	equative
6	The baby is crying.	SV	intransitive
7	We are the ~~best~~ team ~~in the league~~.	S=C	equative
8	We are beginning the movie ~~at 8:00~~.	SVO	transitive
9	They were angry.	S=C	equative.
10	They were giving the children candy.	(SVOⁱO^d)	ditransitive
11	Ben was friendly.	S=C	equative
12	Ben was eating a pizza.	SVO	transitive

Find the base clause.