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15 进行时态（15 progressive tense） Tense (continuous) represents the action that is taking place or occurring at a certain time or time in the past, present, or future. Kinds and forms The progressive tense has four kinds: the present progressive tense, the past progressive tense, the future progressive tense, the past progressive tense, and the future progressive tense. The four tenses are composed of the two general tenses of the auxiliary verb be and the present participle. The difference between the general tense and the progressive tense There are two main differences between the general tense and the progressive tense: 1) the general tense is usually the act or state of being constant, while the progressive tense means the action that is being carried out at a certain moment or time. Such as: We, read, newspapers, every, day.. We read newspapers every day. She is now reading the newspaper., shes reading a newspaper now. 2) the general tense expresses the inherent features and abilities of the subject, while the progressive tense expresses the subjects specific actions at a given moment or time. Such as: He sings well., he sings very well. He is singing a folk song. hes singing a folk song. [note] not all verbs can be used to express some verb tenses, such as status, emotion and feeling, usually can only be used in general and not with the tense tense, such as know (know) are generally not used for temporal. Such verbs are be (yes), have (have), 1ove (love), hate (hate), want (want), 1ike (like), think (think), believe (believe), see (see), hear (hear), etc.. The basic concept of the present continuous tense 1) the present progressive indicates the action being performed at this moment (when the speaker is speaking). It does not indicate when and when the action will end. In Chinese, it is often expressed as right in or . Such as: What, are, you, doing? Im doing some washing. what are you doing? I was washing clothes. Look! It is snowing.! Look! Its snowing. She is