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	Continuous and progressive aspects - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For example, G.L. Lewis's grammar of Turkish counts the -iyor form as a present tense; Robert Underhill's as a progressive tense; and Jacklin Kornfilt's as both a continuous (nonhabitual imperfective) and a progressive (continuous non-stative) aspect.
		In general, the progressive aspect expresses the dynamic quality of actions that are in progress while the continuous aspect expresses the state of the subject that is continuing the action.
		Some linguists consider the progressive aspect to be a kind of continuous aspect, one that merely emphasizes the action already conveyed by the continuous.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_tense (1518 words)

	Progressive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Progressive Corporation, an auto insurance company in the US Progressive tense in grammar
		Progressive JPEG, image format which displays scans from lower quality to higher quality during transmission
		Progressive scan is a form of video transmission which is frame-based instead of field-based
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive (135 words)

	Verb_tense
		The present progressive tense indicates a continuing action in the present time, while the present perfect progressive tense indicates an action that began in the past and is continuing in the present.
		The future progressive tense is used to indicate an action that will be ongoing in the future, while the future perfect progressive tense is used to indicate an action that begins at an earlier time and will be continuing at the time of a another future action.
		The progressive tense consists of the present participle form of the verb (ending in -ing) preceded by a form of the verb be.
	www.harpercollege.edu /writ_ctr/verb_tense.htm (521 words)

	Matsuno (specific) - The Present Tense: An Impossible Dream?
		However, statements in the present progressive tense are multi-agential in their implication in that what is responsible for making those descriptive events progressive is not limited to the author of the statements, though the possibility that the author could eventually monopolize the agential capacity could not totally be eliminated.
		Consequently, the memory of completed progression in the present and the anonymous objectivity of progression in the present based upon the memory, when combined together, yields a likelihood of a dynamics to be described in the present tense.
		Even if the memory of completed progression does not remain invariant, time as an associative factor between the two tenses does survive since the condition of letting a dynamics in the present tense be equal to a similar one in the present progressive tense gives birth to such a time as an associative factor.
	www.focusing.org /apm_papers/matsuno3.html (1585 words)

	Spanish Grammar: present progressive
		The present progressive is formed by combining the verb "to be" with the present participle.
		To form the present progressive, simply conjugate the verb estar to agree with the subject of the sentence, and follow it with the present participle.
		Remember, only use the present progressive for actions that are "in progress." Compare the uses of the present indicative with the uses of the present progressive.
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/presprog.htm (347 words)

	EnglishOntheRun-Grammar
		It is important to remember that tense is not the same as time and that the actions started in the past, continue now and will go on in the future.
		This tense is used to describe actions that began in the past, still go on in the present and possibly in the future.
		The other tense used to express future in English is formed with the auxiliary "will" followed by a verb in the infinitive form of the main verb.
	www.geocities.com /gob72/grammarverbtenses.html (1769 words)

	Verb Tenses
		Present progressive tense describes an ongoing action that is happening at the same time the statement is written.
		Present perfect tense describes an action that happened at an indefinite time in the past or that began in the past and continues in the present.This tense is formed by using has/have with the past participle of the verb.
		Present perfect progressive tense describes an action that began in the past, continues in the present, and may continue into the future.
	leo.stcloudstate.edu /grammar/tenses.html (732 words)

	Tense and related topics
		And most English "traditional tenses" (i.e, the tenses that are "sort of the same as" the 6 tenses Latin had: present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect) canonically use only a few combinations.
		Linguists reserve the technical term "tense" for true inflection, i.e, one that produces a real change in a single word, as in Latin or Spanish, which are inflectional languages and have a lot of tenses, all encompassed paradigmatically.
		The rule is that the FORM of the next verb (Infinitive, Past or Present Participle, inflected form, etc.) is determined by the preceding verb, and the first verb is inflected for tense (past or present), and person and number subject agreement in the present (and in the past for "be").
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/aue/tense.html (2323 words)

	NSCC: Loft Tutoring: Grammar Handouts - Verb Tenses
		The present progressive is used to show action which is going on at the present moment while the statement is being written or spoken.
		It is formed with the present tense of the verb to be plus the present participle, a form of the verb with the –ing suffix.
		The past progressive is formed with the past tense of the verb to be and the present participle of the base verb.
	www.northseattle.edu /services/loft/grammar/verbtenses.html (904 words)

	Present Progressive
		The works which discuss the topic of tense all agree on one point, the number of tenses in English (or whichever language they may be studying) that they propose in their article is the correct number, and any researcher who has theorized a different number is misguided.
		The range of possible tenses mentioned in the works that were examined for this paper ranged from a low of two, to a high of seventeen, in the case of a reference to Spanish tense.
		Rather than seeing the progressive as being related to duration, repetition, incompletion, or action in progress, Jespersen (1931) explains it as “progressive of the frame.” Jespersen sees the progressive in a sentence such as “She was dancing” as being the “frame” for another situation.
	www.eslweb.org /present_progressive.htm (7980 words)

	Verb tenses
		Present progressive verbs are formed by using a present tense auxiliary verb and marking the main verb with an [ing] ending.
		Past progressive verbs are formed by using a past tense auxiliary verb and marking the main verb with an [ing] ending.
		Students are given the present tense form of the verb and are asked to generate both the irregular past and the past participle.
	newton.uor.edu /facultyfolder/rider/verbtenses.htm (5768 words)

	Future Progressive Tense
		Future progressive tense is used to indicate action which will be taking place at some time in the future.
		The future progressive tense is formed by adding will be to the ?ing form of the main verb.
		The future progressive tense is not as common as other tenses, and it can some-times be replaced by simple future, present progressive or even simple present.
	www.eslgold.net /grammar/future_progressive.html (127 words)

	330 Grammar: Forming and Using the Past Continuous Tense
		The past continuous tense (also called the past progressive tense) is commonly used in English for actions which were going on (had not finished) at a particular time in the past.
		This tense was formed using two components: the verb BE (in the past tense), and the -ING form of a verb.
		Finally, we can use this tense to describe TWO actions that were BOTH continuing at the same time in the past.
	web2.uvcs.uvic.ca /elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pascon.htm (255 words)

	Verb Tenses II
		An easy way to remember them is that there is a simple present, simple past, and simple future tense, and for each of these there is a perfect form of the tense.
		Then, there is a progressive form that corresponds to each of these six tenses.
		Mood refers to manner in which a verb is expressed: a verb’s mood shows whether the sentence is conveying a fact, a desire, a possibility or probability, or a command.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /engl201/tense.htm (564 words)

	Tense - Glossary Definition - UsingEnglish.com
		Tense is used to show the relation between the action or state described by the verb and the time, which is reflected in the form of the verb.
		There are two basic tenses in English; the present tense and the past tense.
		Regular verbs add -ed or -d to show the past tense, while irregular verbs change in many different ways, or not at all in some cases.
	www.usingenglish.com /glossary/tense.html (157 words)

	Present Progressive Tense
		In English, the present progressive is used to indicate actions happening at the time of speaking, or right now.
		The present progressive can also be used to indicate actions occurring over a period of time which includes the present.
		The present progressive is sometimes used to indicate ongoing, developing, imminent or future actions.
	www.eslgold.net /grammar/present_progressive.html (169 words)

	Indonesian/Tenses - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		To express a currently ongoing activity, we use progressive tense.
		The word "sedang" or "lagi" are used right before the verb in order to form progressive tense.
		Note that due to English influence, sudah or telah are often used to express past perfect tenses due to the closeness of their meaning.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Indonesian_Tenses (1134 words)

	Prefer the Simple Tenses over the Progressive Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		are also sharper sentences than the versions with progressive tenses.
		Read the sentences out loud and notice how they are improved by changing the progressive tense to a simple tense.
		It also motivates them to use progressive tenses where simple tenses would be more effective, because they get to add an extra word to the verb of each sentence that uses the progressive tense.
	www.grammartips.homestead.com /progressive.html (492 words)

	Vietnamese/Tense - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
		Unlike Western languages, Vietnamese doesn't change the ending of the verb (that is, verbs don't conjugate) to express when the statement occurs (the statement's tense).
		As in most languages, you don't have to do anything special for the present tense – no words expressing tense need to be added.
		Although other methods of expressing tense also rely on context in the sentence, another way to express tense has to do with common sense.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Vietnamese/Tense (373 words)

	English Grammar: Present Continuous Tense (EnglishClub.com)
		We often use the present continuous tense in English.
		It is very different from the simple present tense, both in structure and in use.
		So the present progressive tense is the same as the present continuous tense.
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/verb-tenses_present-continuous.htm (102 words)

	English Grammar: Past Continuous Tense (EnglishClub.com)
		The past continuous tense is an important tense in English.
		We use it to say what we were in the middle of doing at a particular moment in the past.
		In this lesson we look at the structure and the use of the past continuouse tense, followed by a quiz to check your understanding:
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/verb-tenses_past-continuous.htm (90 words)

	The Present Progressive in Spanish
		The present progressive usually requires a linking verb - the most common of which is "to Be".
		The form of "to Be" in Spanish which is used with the present progressive is Estar.
		The present progressive has a much stronger sense of immediacy in Spanish.
	www.drlemon.net /Grammar/progressive.html (368 words)

	The Past Perfect Progressive and What is the Past Perfect Progressive Tense in English Grammar--Today's Free English ...
		When the past perfect progressive answers a how-long question, it often uses the words for and since.
		Notice that it is not necessary to use the words before and after when using the past perfect progressive.
		When using the past perfect progressive, you do not have to use the word before because the past perfect progressive already expresses one activity happened before another.
	www.myenglishteacher.net /past_perfect_progressive.html (959 words)

	Present Progressive and Present Indefinite Tenses - Grammar File
		We use the Present Progressive tense to speak about things which are happening now or things which are temporary.
		Some verbs are not normally used in the Progressive Tense.
		Put the verb in brackets in the correct form, either the Present Indefinite Tense or the Present Progressive Tense.
	www.eclecticenglish.com /grammar/PresentProgressive1D.html (148 words)

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