progressive tense

Synonyms:

continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive

Types:

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

future progressive, future progressive tense

a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future

Type of:

tense

a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time