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Imperfect tense   /ɪmpˈərfɪkt tɛns/   Listen
Imperfect tense

noun
1.
A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going.  Synonyms: continuous tense, imperfect, progressive, progressive tense.






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"Imperfect tense" Quotes from Famous Books



... that this verb and dormiebat below are in the imperfect tense to denote a state of things existing at the past ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.

... learned the difference between the present and past tense of the verb. And here her simplicity rebukes the clumsy irregularities of our language. She learned jump, jumped—walk, walked, etc., until she had an idea of the mode of forming the imperfect tense of regular verbs; but when she came to the word see, she insisted that it should be seed in the imperfect; and upon going down to dinner, she asked if it was eat, eated; but being told it was eat, ATE, she seemed ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

... this verb and dormibat below are in the imperfect tense to denote a state of things existing at the past time indicated ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.



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