Italian GCSE
Ongoing actions
What Ongoing actions means in Italian GCSE, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Ongoing actions
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Reference: AQA
Actions in progress or temporary activities that the stare + gerund construction describes, often what is happening now.
Topics that use Ongoing actions
- Verbs (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Auxiliary verbs
- Auxiliary verbs in the imperfect
- Compound tenses
- Conditional perfect
- Descriptive language
- Everyday conversational phrases
- Expressing desires and wishes
- Formal and informal registers
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