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imperfect tense

DEFINITIONS OF: imperfect tense

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n a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Synonyms:
continuous tense, imperfect, progressive, progressive tense
Types:
present progressive, present progressive tense
a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance
past progressive, past progressive tense
a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past
future progressive, future progressive tense
a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future
Type of:
tense
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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