Present continuous tense. The original sentence indicates that the new year is coming, comingyear uses coming, and the present continuous tense indicates a result that is about to be realized, and the be verb is followed by do. The present continuous tense is a tense in English, indicating the present action or the state of being. The present continuous tense means that the time when the action takes place is "now" and the state of the action is "in progress".