to talk about situations that are in the process of changing, to sound tentativeand less direct when we make proposals, inquires, suggestions, to emphasise repeated actions (that can be annoying), to talk about sth that is incomplete, temporary or still in progress (ofetn emphasising the length of time), to describe a background action that was in progress when another (shorter) action happened), for plans that may not be definite

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