But this morning the habitual scraping actions did not clean off a layer of guilt left on me by the night before.

This can be combined with näbbär to express a habitual past action.

This is opposed to the imperfect, which refers to any repeated, continuous, or habitual past action.

He seemed made up of a set of habitual actions and decisions.

So it is with habitual actions in general.

First, the development of the embryo proceeds in an established order; so must all habitual actions based on memory.

It may also refer to an ongoing state or habitual action, particularly in saying for how long, or since when, something is the case.

In the second case, the practice would refer to a habitual or customary action or way of doing something.

The simple constructions can be used to express habitual action.

When used with always and never, the present continuous can also express habitual action: He's always forgetting to water the house plants.