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The purpose of this study is to classify the types of English verbs in terms of progressives, clarify the possibility of using each type as a progressive, and investigate the meaning, types, and usage of progressives. English verbs can be classified as activities, accomplishes, achievements, and states according to their meaning. Or accomplishes and achievements can be grouped together. Or English verbs can be classified as dynamic verbs and stative verbs. No matter how they can be classified, it is clarified that stative verbs can not generally be used as progressives. And it is shown that sometimes some stative verbs can be used as progressives when the verbs are used as dynamic usage. As for the meaning of progressives, Quirk et al say that in addition to process and continuation, there can be a number of concomitant meanings or overtones that go with the progressive aspect, such as limited duration, incompletion, simultaneity, vividness of description, emotional coloring and emphasis. And Givon says that progressives including the auxiliary verb ‘be’ can have such properties as unboundedness, proximity, simultaneity, habitual progressive, and progressives including other verbs can have continuous-repetitive aspectuals, inceptive-progressive aspectuals, terminative-progressive aspectuals, etc. The types of progressives can be classified as present progressive, past progressive, future progressive, present perfect progressive, past perfect progressive, and future perfect progressive. And the usage of each type is manifold. In conclusion, it is important and difficult to classify the types of verbs in terms of progressives. And because many verbs have more than two meanings, it seems that, when we classify verbs in terms of the possibility of using verbs as progressives, it would be good to classify verbs according to their dynamic usage and stative usage. And the meanings of progressives can be classified variously depending on their criteria and the usage of each type of progressive is manifold. It seems that it is very important to correctly understand the usage of progressives and put them to practical use.