progressive aspect in a sentence
Examples
- In order to emphasize the progressive aspect rather than the continuous, ( literally meaning " at here " ) can be used in front of the verb:
- "' Progressive "': The progressive aspect typically signals an event or action still occurring when another, more temporally located event took / takes / will take place.
- In the example, the progressive aspect expresses the fact that the subject is actively putting on clothes rather than merely wearing them as in the continuous aspect.
- Example 3 : Namlish speakers often use only the present continuous, or present progressive aspect of a verb at times when native English speakers would employ the present simple.
- One reason, she suggests, is that " private accounts . . . would eliminate the progressive aspects of the current system that provide more help for low-income people ."
- Another more likely source of the English current progressive aspect is the Celtic languages that have been spoken in Britain throughout its history, which all use the same construction.
- The modern syntax used for the progressive aspect ( " I am walking " ) became dominant by the end of the Early Modern period, but other forms were also common.
- "I don't know what the Kennedy people are doing, but I certainly am not aware of Mr . Coolidge's progressive aspects of his public life, " said Richard Viguerie, the conservative fund-raiser.
- The progressive aspect expresses the " dynamic " quality of actions that are in progress while the continuous aspect expresses the " state " of the subject that is continuing the action.
- They account for both the most conservative and the most progressive aspects of our culture, popular and otherwise, as the heaven-and-hell struggle for a national soul that consumed the country in the 1960s suggests.