The habitual and progressive aspects can be combined in English, as in "He used to be playing.

Thus in English the gnomic aspect takes the same form as the habitual aspect.

Some varieties add progressive or habitual aspects.

In Turkish the aorist is a habitual aspect.

The first expresses habitual aspect (or motion in no single direction), while the second expresses progressive aspect.

The unmarked verb, frequently used, can indicate habitual aspect or perfective aspect in the past.

The preterite, when used to indicate habitual aspect, can often be replaced by a compound construction:

Kriol does not have a habitual aspect in its own right.

There are also certain other uses (including those mentioned in the following paragraph) in which the simple present does not reflect a habitual aspect.

Expression of habitual aspect in past time, as in Back then, I would eat early and would walk to school.