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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

tenses

Why do we have different types of tenses? For example: Past Progressive- how do we know if that is a past progressive sentence?
  

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Anonymous Why do we have different types of tenses? For example: Past Progressive- how do we know if that is a past progressive sentence? You should probably Google some basic information about tenses in English.

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Anonymous Why do we have different types of tenses? For example: Past Progressive- how do we know if that is a past progressive sentence?
You should probably Google some basic information about tenses in English.

"progressive" is another word for "continuous". All progressive (continuous) tenses contain a verb with -ing at the end.

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