Progressive aspect synonym: continuous aspect

Question

continuous-aspect (60 questions) and its synonym "continuous" seems to be the same thing as progressive-aspect (141 questions). If they're different, I welcome correction (and someone should post an answer to the following question explaining the difference: Is the tense called “Present Progressive” or “Present Continuous”?).

Answer 1

Quoth Wikipedia:

The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated ᴄᴏɴᴛ and ᴘʀᴏɢ) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action ("to do") or state ("to be") in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects. In the grammars of many languages the two terms are used interchangeably. This is the case with English: a construction such as "He is washing" may be described either as present continuous or as present progressive. However, there are certain languages for which two different aspects are distinguished.

So I think we can safely merge those for English. I wouldn't want to add gerunds to the mix, though. Remember how we have folks who think any -ing word is a gerund.

There are a lot of aspects. For example, there’s also this:

In linguistics, the aspect of a verb is a grammatical category that defines the temporal flow (or lack thereof) in a given action, event, or state.[1][2] As its name suggests, the habitual aspect (abbreviated ʜᴀʙ) specifies an action as occurring habitually: the subject performs the action usually, ordinarily, or customarily. The habitual aspect is a type of imperfective aspect, which does not depict an event as a single entity viewed only as a whole but instead specifies something about its internal temporal structure.

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Aspect can mark the stage of an action. The prospective aspect is a combination of tense and aspect that indicates the action is in preparation to take place. The inceptive aspect identifies the beginning stage of an action (e.g. Esperanto uses ek-, e.g. Mi ekmanĝas, "I am beginning to eat.") and inchoative and ingressive aspects identify a change of state (The flowers started blooming) or the start of an action (He started running). Aspects of stage continue through progressive, pausative, resumptive, cessive, and terminative.