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continuous tenses

continuous tenses is the plural of continuous tense.

Meaning of continuous tense

Noun

continuous tense (plural continuous tenses)

  1. A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with the present participle, namely present continuous ("I am dreaming"), past continuous ("I was dreaming"), present perfect continuous ("I have been dreaming"), past perfect continuous ("I had been dreaming"), future continuous ("I will be dreaming") or future perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").
    • Traditional grammar places great stress on [...] tenses of verbs and tense-equivalents, including the complications of the continuous tenses (he is writing the book all over again)[.]1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 152

Questions about continuous tenses

What is continuous tenses the plural of?
Continuous tenses is the plural of continuous tense.

Words near continuous tenses in the dictionary

  1. continuous phases
  2. continuous random variable
  3. continuous shot
  4. continuous take
  5. continuous tense
  6. continuous tenses
  7. continuous time
  8. continuous times
  9. continuous track
  10. continuous variable
  11. continuous variable valve timing

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