What does present progressive mean?

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present progressive

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

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impressive progressive aggressive past progressive future progressive past perfect progressive future perfect progressive excessive successive passive-aggressive oppressive obsessive

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