Tenses Questions Medium
We use the conditional continuous tense to talk about hypothetical or unreal situations in the present or future. It is formed by using "would be" or "would have been" followed by the present participle (-ing form) of the verb. This tense is used to express actions that are ongoing or in progress at a specific point in the future, but are dependent on a certain condition being met. For example:
- If I won the lottery, I would be traveling around the world right now.
- If it stopped raining, we would have been playing soccer in the park.
In both of these examples, the conditional continuous tense is used to describe ongoing actions (traveling, playing soccer) that are dependent on a specific condition (winning the lottery, the rain stopping).