The Use of the Progressive Form in English: A New Approach

Anna Granville Hatcher

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Perhaps the most problematical feature of verbal usage in modern English is the alternation of simple and progressive forms. According to the traditional opinion, the progressive is intended to emphasize durative aspect; but while this emphasis, as well as the contrast it offers to that of the simple form, is well illustrated in such an example as While we were talking, the telephone rang, there are countless cases in which the peculiar force of the progressive is at first glance difficult to grasp. Such cases may be divided into two main groups.

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