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How did grammarians determine that the Present Continuous is an aspect?
I'm asking this here because resources on the present continuous and on the topic of aspect go into a lot of detail about the usage of those terms, but not so much on the history of how they came to be … I have seen a lot of good history/etymology-oriented answers on this site, so I hope this question isn't off-topic. …
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