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PRESENT PROGRESSIVE
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
Synonyms:
present progressive; present progressive tense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("present 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)