I am looking for books or passages that use the past progressive tense. Books are typically written in the past tense or present tense for narrative purposes. The past progressive tense (also known as the past continuous tense) is not commonly used as the primary tense.

Which one would be correct English: The tiger is an example of a feline species. or The tiger is an example of feline species. It may be related to one of my previous questions titled 'One type of [noun]' v. 'one type of [plural noun]', but I decided to post a separate question in case there ...

I extracted this passage from 1984 because I am looking for passages written in Past Progressive Tense or Present Progressive Tense. I would think it is written in Present Progressive Tense but not quite sure. In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in th...

I have been looking at Past Tenses. And encountered the Perfect and Non-Perfect Tenses. Looks as if the use of Simple Tense is superfluous because Simple Sense is basically Perfect Tense. Would that be so ?

Is it true that the Past Simple Tense and the Past Perfect Ttense are distinct tenses in English, and they serve different grammatical purposes. Past Simple Tense (Simple Past) describes completed actions or events that occurred at a specific point in the past. It does not require a connection t...

In terms of linguistic complexity, can one classify Simple, Perfect, Non-Perfect, Non-Progressive, Progressive ?

Are tenses always related to verbs. Including Aspect (Perfect, Imperfect, Non-Progressive, Progressive) ?