Literary notes about Progressive (AI summary)
The term “progressive” is deployed with remarkable versatility in literature, often signifying movement or development in both literal and metaphorical senses. In grammatical discussions, it describes verb-phrase forms that indicate ongoing or continuous action, as seen in discussions of progressive tenses ([1],[2],[3],[4]). In scientific or technical writing, “progressive” is employed to denote gradual, directional motion or transformation, evoking images of continual change and forward motion ([5],[6],[7]). Meanwhile, in political and social commentaries, the word is used to characterize reform-minded ideologies or movements, marking a departure from the static and traditional ([8],[9],[10],[11]). Furthermore, it can serve as a metaphor for personal or societal evolution, suggesting a methodical progression toward a higher or more fully realized state ([12],[13],[14]).
- In addition to the tense-forms already described, verbs have so-called progressive forms .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The compound tense formed by using the present active participle with the present tense of esti is called the progressive present tense .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed - Progressive Form Active Voice Present Tense SINGULAR PLURAL 1.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - In the passive, the progressive forms are confined to the present and the past tense.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - Without touch, without progressive motion, the sharpest eyes in the world could give us no idea of space.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - By the operation of this spring, the screw is made to revolve with great rapidity, communicating a progressive motion to the whole.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition by Edgar Allan Poe - Transformation of alternating circular motion into alternating rectilinear motion, or into intermittent and progressive circular motion.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Suppose the Taft policy should be substituted by the more progressive Jones policy.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount - — From "Pass Prosperity Around," by Albert J. Beveridge , before the Chicago National Convention of the Progressive Party .
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - The Progressive party asserts anew the vitality of the Constitution.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - The Progressive party only believes in the sincere enactment of a sound tariff policy.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - But he seems to have supposed that the course of events was recurring rather than progressive.
— from Timaeus by Plato - The progressive organization of personality depends upon the successful functioning of this process of sublimation.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The concentration of attention and of enthusiasm upon strategic points gives ever-increasing impetus to progressive movements.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
