past progressive

Noun
  1. A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past (synset 113829176)
    "`I had been running' is an example of the past progressive"
    is a type of: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going
    same as: past progressive tense

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