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PROGRESSIVE ASPECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does progressive aspect mean?
• PROGRESSIVE ASPECT (noun)
The noun PROGRESSIVE ASPECT has 1 sense:
1. the aspect of a verb that expresses its on-going action
Familiarity information: PROGRESSIVE ASPECT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The aspect of a verb that expresses its on-going action
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("progressive aspect" is a kind of...):
durative; durative aspect (the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration)
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"Only the tent pitched by your own hands will stand." (Arabic proverb)
"Some die; others bloom." (Corsican proverb)