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Progressive tense - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Axial, Back, Catenary, Contemporary, Continuous, Developing, Drifting, Dynamic, Extremist, Fashionable, Fluent |
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The progressive or continuous tenses of a verb are those denoting an incomplete action in progress at a specific time.
In English, the three simple progressives are formed with conjugations of the auxiliary verb be and the present participle of a verb:
- Present progressive: I am eating, passive I am being eaten.
- Past progressive: I was eating, passive I was being eaten.
- Future progressive: I will (or shall) be eating, passive I will be being eaten.
In Spanish, the tenses work in essentially the same way, using the verb estar (="to be" for states or nonpermanent characteristics):
- Present progressive: Estoy comiendo (="I am eating").
- Past progressive: Yo estaba comiendo (="I was eating").
- Future progressive: Estaré comiendo (="I will be eating").
See perfect tense for the perfect progressive tenses.
See also: grammatical aspect.
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Example Usage of Progressive |
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nscafe: RT @djkelly: First topic of the day for me: define "Progressive" #rebootab // Niiiice. Next; define "conservative" |
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djkelly: First topic of the day for me: define "Progressive" #rebootab |
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BeautifulWaste: @InStyle says the perfect gift for a man for x-mas is a man purse? really? Didn't they see the Progressive commercial? |
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