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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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Static verbs with progressive
While it's true that state verbs don't play well with the continuous aspect, there's a modern (last 20 years or so) trend towards using state verbs with continuous and slightly altering the meaning.
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going absolutely crazy
In this context, it's the same difference as between "they were eating salad" and "they ate salad".
You seem to be confusing the two meanings of "go crazy":
1 : to become mentally unsound
I must be g …
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Past progressive vs Simple past
1a) Why use the passive progressive form, as opposed to simply "kids are left behind"?
In general, progressive forms refer to something happening now, temporarily, whereas simple present refers to s …
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What tenses work with "all the time"?
The present progressive is correct here, but not because you were playing at that moment. There's another function of present continuous here, which is to express annoyance at a repeated event. It's o …
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