Definition of continuous tense Continuous tense
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What does continuous tense mean?
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| continuous tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going | ||
| progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense | ||
| tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time | ||
| 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; "`I had been running' is an example of the past progressive" | ||
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