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When do you start work? is this a simple present statement? or a present continuous and why? thanks so much!
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what type of sentence is this...
When do you start work? is this a simple present statement? or a present continuous and why? thanks so much!

When do you start work?

This is the present simple. We use 'do/does' as auxiliary verbs to make questions. One of the reasons the present simple is used is to discuss events that are routine/habitual/always-generally true.

Present continuous (PC) is

Subject + be verb + [lexical verb]+ing

I'm jumping. He's kneeling. We're running. They're crouching.

One reason we use the PC is to describe an action that's happening now.
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