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/ɪmpˈərfɪkt tɛns/ Listen

Imperfect tense

noun

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

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... 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

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Words linked to "Imperfect tense" : past progressive, past progressive tense, future progressive, future progressive tense, present progressive tense, present progressive, imperfect, tense