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Continuous and progressive aspects

The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated .mw-parser-output span.smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}.mw-parser-output span.smallcaps-smaller{font-size:85%}cont and prog) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action ("to do") or state ("to be") in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects.

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Continuous and progressive in various languages

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Grammatical aspectsImperfectiveEnglishPresent continuousChinese
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Continuous and progressive aspects

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Edges86
Triples10
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022989
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Continuous and progressive aspects → Unless

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continuous progressive aspect used present form verb gerund english example meaning using verbs tense languages reading infinitive also participle past

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Norwegianinstance ofThis is a form also used in other Germanic languages0.80text
Dutchinstance ofThis is a form also used in other Germanic languages0.80text
walkinginstance ofAnother form is used for motions0.80text
driving or flyinginstance ofAnother form is used for motions0.80text
Chūgoku dialectinstance ofhowever this is highly strange and pragmatically incorrect.Some dialects0.80text
Shikoku dialect have different grammar forms for the progressiveinstance ofhowever this is highly strange and pragmatically incorrect.Some dialects0.80text
the continuous aspectinstance ofhowever this is highly strange and pragmatically incorrect.Some dialects0.80text
Danishinstance ofThis is a form also used in other Germanic languages0.80text
Continuous and progressive aspectsrelated to ChineseChinese0.60section
Continuous and progressive aspectsrelated to Continuous and progressive in various languagesUnless0.60section

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