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- Ongoing or on-going - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Either is acceptable, though the form ongoing is almost uniquely the one used in modern times (The hyphenated version, as with most compound words in English, was the original form; the hyphen got dropped after time as the word became more common )as The Online Etymology Dictionary gives the following origin: ongoing
- When I should use Ongoing and when I should use in progress?
Monday: "Our move to the new place is ongoing " Tuesday: "Our move to the new place is still ongoing " Wednesday: "Our move to the new place is done " Example from Yahoo Still is used to let the reader know that the situation is the same as before; it is intensifying 'ongoing' So assuming you mean just 'ongoing', in progress is better
- Continuing vs. continued - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A discussion arose about whether one could substitute ongoing availability with continuing availability and what the difference would be, if any Actually, my gut feeling told me it should've been continued availability instead of continuing
- How to write “till now” in a résumé? - English Language Usage . . .
On resumes, the most common way to indicate that a period is ongoing is either 2009 – present or 2009 to present The en dash is the preferred punctuation Many word processors replace a double hyphen with an en dash once the next word is typed
- What is the correct phrase to describe an ongoing study for a PhD?
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- present perfect - What tense should I use for describing an ongoing . . .
The PPC in sentence 1 suggest that the arrangement, or action , is a temporary ongoing one whereas sentence 2 could suggest that the speaker no longer lives in LA, this ambiguity is removed in sentence 3 because of the specific time reference used: “all my life”
- grammar - Should it be continual or continuous? - English Language . . .
The sentence above indicates that the repair is ongoing over two years but is interrupted at certain intervals Now consider this use of 'continuous': The continuous humming of the fluorescent lights gave him a headache This sentence implies that the humming is happening uninterruptedly over a period of time
- MODAL + HAVE BEEN + ING VERB expresses an ongoing action which . . .
The question to ask re MUST + the PC is: Was the action ongoing at the TIME the utterance was spoken? On your timeline (great timeline by the way), the person creating the utterance is "standing" right at the present division line
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