All the progressive tenses indicate continuing action.
Present progressive : ongoing continuous action
Past progressive : past continuous action
Future progressive : future continuous action
Future perfect progressive : future finished continuing action
Not sure what your question is, but here is some information about it:
- It was introduced around 1750s but people already partially stopped using it around 1790s
-There were some specific rules for it, but there was some confusion about them and not everyone followed them
- it started with the capitalization of the main word in the sentence and then Capitalisation of all Substantives was introduced
-in German such a capitalization was introduced in 17th century too, and remains to this day
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