english progressive tense

The progressive tense is an English tense. It is formed by using a form of “to be” as a helping verb with the participle form of the verb. The progressive tense has imperfective aspect.

I am running
You are running
He/she/it is running.

We are running.
You are running.
They are running

cf. periphrastic

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