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  2. Continuous and progressive aspects - Wikipedia

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    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. For instance, "Tom is reading" can express dynamic activity: "Tom is reading a book" – i.e. right now (progressive aspect), or Tom's current state: "Tom is reading ...

  3. Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia

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    These two tenses may be modified further for progressive aspect (also called continuous aspect), for the perfect, or for both. These two aspectual forms are also referred to as BE +ING [13] and HAVE +EN, [14] respectively, which avoids what may be unfamiliar terminology. Aspects of the present tense: Present simple (not progressive, not perfect ...

  4. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    With stative verbs in senses that do not use progressive aspect, to refer to a present or general state, whether temporary, permanent or habitual. (In senses that do use progressive aspect, the present simple is used when the state is permanent or habitual.) You are happy. I know what to do. Denmark lies to the north of Germany.

  5. Participle - Wikipedia

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    The present participle forms the progressive aspect with the auxiliary verb be: Jim was sleeping. The past participle forms the perfect aspect with the auxiliary verb have: The chicken has eaten. 5. The past participle is used to form passive voice: The chicken was eaten. Such passive participles can appear in an adjectival phrase:

  6. 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.

  7. Tense–aspect–mood - Wikipedia

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    There are four aspects in Hindustani: Simple Aspect, Habitual Aspect, Perfective Aspect and Progressive Aspect. Periphrastic Hindustani verb forms consist of two elements, the first of these two elements is the aspect marker and the second element (the copula) is the tense-mood marker. [14]

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  9. Present continuous - Wikipedia

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    The present continuous is used in several instances. Its most common use is to describe something that is happening at the exact moment of speech: [3] The boy is laughing. This contrasts with the simple present, which is used to refer to something that occurs habitually (i.e. habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements ...