PAST PROGRESSIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past

Example:

'I had been running' is an example of the past progressive

Synonyms:

past progressive; past progressive tense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("past progressive" is a kind of...):

continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going)