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In the terminology of British grammarian Henry Sweet, a verb is said to have a long tense if it indicates a continuing or recurring action, e.g., They ''were sailing'' across the Atlantic. I ''was living'' in London at the time. He ''goes'' to Germany twice a year. Such verbs are more commonly said to be in the continuous or progressive tense. (Since the tense of a verb strictly concerns the ''time'' of the action, some linguists prefer to say that these verbs show continuous or progressive aspect.) ==Bibliography== * Sweet, Henry (1900). A New English Grammar: Logical and Historical, Part I. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Long tense」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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