continuoustense (pluralcontinuous tenses)

1. (grammar) A verb tense expressing ongoing action; in English, any of the tenses formed with thepresent participle, namelypresent 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") orfuture perfect continuous ("I will have been dreaming").
   • 1985,Robert Burchfield,The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page152:

     Traditional grammar places great stress on [...] tenses of verbs and tense-equivalents, including the complications of thecontinuous tenses (heis writing the book all over again)[.]

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