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Questions related to the grammatical aspect that expresses an incomplete action or a state at a specific point in time. For specific tenses, see the tags 'present-progressive', 'present-continuous', 'future-progressive', 'past-continuous' and 'perfect-continuous'.
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Can we use the verb “ache” verb in continuous constructions like “is aching“?
Yes, you can.
In The Gondoliers, W.S. Gilbert has the chorus of girls sing:
By a law of maiden's making,
Accents of a heart that's aching,
Even though that heart be breaking,
Should by maiden be unsai …
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I may have been trying to reach her. (is this tense a past progressive or present perfect pr...
It means:
It's possible that I was trying to reach her.
Only you can say why the speaker doesn't know whether they were trying or not!
The distinction between may and might has become rather blurred …
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Simple present or progressive present wiht "say"?
(1) What does the book say? is by far the most natural. A book isn't in the process of saying something; the information is already printed there.
For (2), both tenses might be possible, if the speake …
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