- continuous tense
- nouna tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going• Syn: ↑progressive, ↑progressive tense, ↑imperfect, ↑imperfect tense• Hypernyms: ↑tense
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Continuous and progressive aspects — The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated cont and prog) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non habitual, imperfective aspects. It is a verb category with two principal… … Wikipedia
Continuous tenses — ◊ GRAMMAR A continuous tense contains a form of the verb be and a present participle. Continuous tenses are used when talking about temporary situations at a particular point in time. See entry at ↑ Tenses. ◊ dynamic verbs Verbs which are used in … Useful english dictionary
continuous tenses — ◊ GRAMMAR A continuous tense contains a form of the verb be and a present participle. Continuous tenses are used when talking about temporary situations at a particular point in time. See entry at ↑ Tenses. ◊ dynamic verbs Verbs which are used in … Useful english dictionary
continuous tenses — are tenses (or more strictly, aspects of tense) of the types I am staying, they were going, etc., as contrasted with the simple tenses I stay, they went, etc. They are also known as progressive tenses … Modern English usage
Pluperfect progressive tense — The pluperfect progressive tense (or past perfect continuous) is a perfective tense in most Indo European languages which shows an event that started in the past and continued up until another time in the past. This grammatical tense may be… … Wikipedia
Imperfect tense — The imperfect tense, in the classical grammar of several Indo European languages, denotes a past tense with an imperfective aspect. In English, it is referred to as the past continuous tense.The term originated with the Latin language because… … Wikipedia
progressive tense — noun a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on going • Syn: ↑progressive, ↑imperfect, ↑imperfect tense, ↑continuous tense • Hypernyms: ↑tense • Hyponyms: ↑present … Useful english dictionary
imperfect tense — noun a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on going • Syn: ↑progressive, ↑progressive tense, ↑imperfect, ↑continuous tense • Hypernyms: ↑tense • Hyponyms: ↑pr … Useful english dictionary
Past continuous — is used to describe actions and states continued in the past period of time.The construction of a past continuous is similar to the present continuous tense, be it that it has a past simple form of to be instead of a present simple form preceding … Wikipedia
future progressive tense — noun a progressive tense used to express action that will be on going in the future I will be running is an example of the future progressive • Syn: ↑future progressive • Hypernyms: ↑progressive, ↑progressive tense, ↑imperfect, ↑imperfect tense,… … Useful english dictionary
