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"Keep at it!", "Hold the line!" appear to be orders to be doing something right now.



They're orders to continue a present activity into the future.


Is the continuation not an activity in the present time, or that starts in the present time? Characterizing this as being in the futures seems to be an incorrect boundary case.


They're definitely orders about the future. "Keep at it" has the present as context, "hold the line" is a bit ambiguous, "don't let it happen again" has the past as context, but they're all talking about the future.




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