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CONTINUOUS TENSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
Synonyms:
continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("continuous tense" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "continuous tense"):
present progressive; present progressive tense (a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance)
past progressive; past progressive tense (a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past)
future progressive; future progressive tense (a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future)
