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continuous tense

noun

Definitions

  1. A verb tense expressing ongoing action

    A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with the present participle, namely present continuous ("I am dreaming"), past continuous ("I was dreaming"), present perfect continuous ("I have been dreaming"), past perfect continuous ("I had been dreaming"), future continuous ("I will be dreaming") or future perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").

    • Traditional grammar places great stress on [...] tenses of verbs and tense-equivalents, including the complications of the continuous tenses (he is writing the book all over again)[.]

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for continuous tense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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