The other interpretation is prescriptive : some verbs are stative, and if you use the progressive tense for one of those you're an oaf who doesn't know proper English.
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Whichever of these interpretations you may be being preferring, using the progressive tense has the effect of " de-statizing " the verb, turning it into one of action, possibly for effect.
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In addition to the complexities of the progressive tense, there are many auxiliary-converb pairs that encode a range of aspectual, modal, volitional, evidential and action-modificational meanings " ."
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A second kind of progressive tense is formed with the verb " sein " ( " to be " ) + present participle, and is the literal translation of the English progressive tense ( for present and past ).
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A second kind of progressive tense is formed with the verb " sein " ( " to be " ) + present participle, and is the literal translation of the English progressive tense ( for present and past ).
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In contrast to the former one, this progressive tense is a formal correct part of standard German, but, however, very uncommon in spoken as well as in written, in colloquial as well as in formal German thus very uncommon.
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:Exx8-- for verbs where the subject is an active doer, then the plain unadorned present tense ( with no modals ) actually has a kind of habitual or general reference, while the progressive tense is used for specific concrete actions.
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Still, where the progressive tense is usually needed in English to signal that some action is ongoing, with stative verbs you can normally use the present simple for describing an ongoing state .-- Lambiam 12 : 04, 27 August 2007 ( UTC)
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Such verbs are more commonly said to be in the continuous or progressive tense . ( Since the tense of a verb strictly concerns the " time " of the action, some linguists prefer to say that these verbs show continuous or progressive aspect .)
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For example, some grammars of Turkish count the "'- iyor "'form as a present tense; some as a progressive tense; and some as both a continuous ( nonhabitual imperfective ) and a progressive ( continuous non-stative ) aspect.