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Noun: present progressive tense
  1. A tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
    "In 'I am writing', 'am writing' is in the present progressive tense";
    - present progressive

Type of: continuous tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, progressive, progressive tense

Encyclopedia: Present progressive tense