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  2. Continuous and progressive aspects - Wikipedia

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    In Cantonese, the progressive marker 緊 can express the continuous aspect as well, depending on the context (so the example above could also mean "I'm wearing clothes" in addition to "I'm putting on clothes"), but in general, the progressive aspect is assumed. In order to emphasize the progressive aspect rather than the continuous, 喺度 ...

  3. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    Grammatical aspect is a formal property of a language, distinguished through overt inflection, derivational affixes, or independent words that serve as grammatically required markers of those aspects. For example, the Kʼicheʼ language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k- and x- to mark incompletive and completive aspect; [3 ...

  4. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    The progressive (or continuous) aspect is expressed with a form of be together with the present participle of the verb. Thus present progressive (present continuous) constructions take forms like am writing, is writing, are writing, while the past progressive (past continuous, also called imperfect) forms are was writing, were writing.

  5. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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    Example be 1: copula (= linking verb) She is the boss. be 2: progressive aspect: He is sleeping. be 3: passive voice: They were seen. can 1: deontic modality: I can swim. can 2: epistemic modality: Such things can help. could 1: deontic modality: I could swim. could 2: epistemic modality: That could help. dare: deontic modality: I dare not ...

  6. Dynamic verb - Wikipedia

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    These distinctions lead to various forms related to tense and aspect. For example, a dynamic verb may be said to have a durative aspect if there is not a defined endpoint or a punctual aspect if there is a defined endpoint. Examples of dynamic verbs in English are 'to run', 'to hit', 'to intervene', 'to savour' and 'to go'.

  7. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    If the verb in question does not use the progressive aspect, then the plain past perfect is used instead (see examples in the previous section). The past perfect progressive may also have additional specific uses similar to those of the plain past perfect; see § Conditional sentences , § Dependent clauses , § Expressions of wish , and ...

  8. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    In the indicative its tense/aspect forms are: unmarked (used generically and for the habitual aspect as well as the perfective aspect for past time), ua + verb (perfective aspect, but frequently replaced by the unmarked form), ke + verb + nei (present tense progressive aspect; very frequently used), and e + verb + ana (imperfective aspect ...

  9. Present continuous - Wikipedia

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    The present continuous, also called the present progressive or present imperfect, is a verb form used in modern English that combines the present tense with the continuous aspect. [1] It is formed by the present tense form of be and the present participle of a verb.