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continuous tense::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense |
| Type of | tense |
| Has types | future progressive tense, past progressive, future progressive, present progressive, present progressive tense, past progressive tense |
Examples of continuous tense
continuous tense
The same goes for use of the past continuous tense in the place of the simple past.
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Still short, but clearer, without use of present continuous tense.
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In recent years, these have got confused so that people use the continuous tense with meaning 1. above.
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The future continuous tense isn't purely an English thing.
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One can easily recognize a person from Pusad, Digras or Umarkhed taluka of Yavatmal district by his sentence of present continuous tense.
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Present continuous is usually the same as the present tense.
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The present tense and the present continuous have distinct meanings in Italian, the latter emphasising that the action is occurring at time the speaker is speaking.
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In Modern Greek, the present tense is used similarly to the present tense in English, and they can also convey the present continuous.
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