progressive tenses
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progressive tense — noun a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on going • Syn: ↑progressive, ↑imperfect, ↑imperfect tense, ↑continuous tense • Hypernyms: ↑tense • Hyponyms: ↑present … Useful english dictionary
continuous tenses — are tenses (or more strictly, aspects of tense) of the types I am staying, they were going, etc., as contrasted with the simple tenses I stay, they went, etc. They are also known as progressive tenses … Modern English usage
Continuous and progressive aspects — The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated cont and prog) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action in progress at a specific time: they are non habitual, imperfective aspects. It is a verb category with two principal… … Wikipedia
Eastern Lombard grammar — The Eastern Lombard Grammar reflects the main features of Romance languages: the word order of Eastern Lombard is usually SVO, nouns are inflected in number, adjectives agree in number and gender with the nouns, verbs are declined in tense,… … Wikipedia
Portuguese grammar — Portuguese grammar, the morphology and syntax of the Portuguese language, is similar to the grammar of most other Romance languages especially Galician and the other languages of Iberian Peninsula. It is a synthetic, fusional language. Nouns,… … Wikipedia
Romance copula — The copula or copulae (the verb or verbs meaning to be ) in all Romance languages largely derive from the Latin verbs esse to be (ultimately from Proto Indo European *h1es , as in English is); stāre to stand (ultimately from Proto Indo European… … Wikipedia
Copula (linguistics) — To be redirects here. For the song, see To Be. For to be, or not to be , see To be, or not to be. In linguistics, a copula (plural: copulae or copulas) is a word used to link the subject of a sentence with a predicate (a subject complement). The… … Wikipedia
be */*/*/ — strong UK [biː] / US [bɪ] weak UK [bɪ] verb Word forms be : present tense I am you/we/they are he/she/it is present participle being past tense I/he/she/it was you/we/they were past participle been Summary: Be can have many different forms… … English dictionary
Venetian language — infobox language name=Venetian nativename=Vèneto states=Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Brazil (States of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina under the name of Taliàn with influence of Portuguese and some other Northern Italian languages), Mexico (in… … Wikipedia
go — I n. (colloq.) attempt 1) a go at (let s have a go at it) misc. 2) to make a go of it ( to get along ); always on the go II v. 1) (d; intr.) ( to proceed ) to go about (to go about one s business) 2) (d; intr.) to go across ( to cross ) (to go… … Combinatory dictionary
