Imagine that you are a farmer during the Dust Bowl and your farm has been ravaged by a dust storm. You are now a migrant worker, heading west to California and looking for employment. You have little to no money. What items would you take with you choose 5 items to bring along with you and Why?

a) he encouraged islamic schools to introduce greek texts.

d) he invited greek scholars to teach their texts to the locals.

explanation:

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.

his face was as red as an

choices ? or is this a actual question from yourself ?