progressive
Use the present continuous form of the verb.
Underline examples of the past perfect and past continuous forms.
"I look forward to hearing your response" is the present simple tense with a gerund, not the present continuous tense.
In the classroom a group of children learning English practise talking about the future using present continuous tenses: "I'm going shopping tomorrow."

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
accusative
art
bare infinitive
bent
copula
dangling participle
finite
gerund
non-finite
non-progressive
passive
passivization
perfective
pluperfect
present participle
subjunctive
the active voice
the future perfect
the past continuous
the past tense
continuous
noun[ S ]
uk /kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/ us /kənˈtɪn.ju.əs/
 the continuous
the form of a verb that is used to show that the action is continuing. In English, it is formed with the verb "be" followed by a present participle(= the -ing form of a verb):
When "think" means "believe" or " have an opinion", we do not usually use the continuous.
the present/past continuous
Her students have already mastered the present simple, the present continuous, and the future conditional.
They have to form yes/no questions using the past continuous, for example "Was John sleeping when you arrived?"

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
accusative
art
bare infinitive
bent
copula
dangling participle
finite
gerund
non-finite
non-progressive
passive
passivization
perfective
pluperfect
present participle
subjunctive
the active voice
the future perfect
the past continuous
the past tense

continuous | American Dictionary

continuous
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/kənˈtɪn·ju·əs/
without a pause or break:
a continuous line of traffic

continuously

adverb[ not gradable ]us/kənˈtɪn·ju·əs·li/
He spoke continuously for more than two hours.

Examples of continuous

continuous
Such a nuanced distinction requires a continuous measure that returns very finely graded values.
This ambivalence was reflected in the continuous violation of the cease-fire agreement by both parties.
An interesting case in point is that of the above-mentioned theorem, that there exist discontinuous spaces with continuous paths.
The study area is surrounded by large expanses (>200 km) of mainly continuous forest to the west, north and east.
Thereby, a continuous supply of urea and amino acids to an open reaction system would be expected to overcome this limitation.
Are the developmental trajectories smooth and continuous, or are there jumps corresponding to timelinked events in the child's life?
However, the succession is cut by a number of small faults so that the section is not continuous.
Our experiences are continuous with those in the universe outside us by which we are affected - and which in turn we affect.
Moreover, (3) can be rewritten such that it holds for continuous variables as well.
On the semantic level, different kinds of algebras and structures are possible, such as partial or continuous algebras, or models of firstorder logic.
By comparison with continuous cropping, all alternatives considered performed better in terms of yield22.
Since the antiphoner was in continuous revision no absolute tally is practical for most chant-forms.
To be more precise, consider the continuous function f which generates the dynamics we are interested in analysing.
We do not use data prior to 1975 because tenure has been recorded as a continuous measure only since 1975.
In order to study whether environmental quality has an impact on property prices, two dummy variables and one continuous variable are used.
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