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    PAST PROGRESSIVE TENSE

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the pastplay

    Example:

    'I had been running' is an example of the past progressive

    Synonyms:

    past progressive; past progressive tense

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

    Hypernyms ("past progressive tense" is a kind of...):

    continuous tense; imperfect; imperfect tense; progressive; progressive tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going)

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