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	Imperfect tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The imperfect tense, in the classical grammar of several Indo-European languages, denotes a past tense with an imperfective aspect.
		In contrast, the imperfect tense in Hebrew grammar is called thus because it refers to "uncompleted" action and therefore denotes present or future time.
		In English, the imperfect tense is manifested in the verb phrases:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Imperfect_tense (649 words)

	Pluperfect tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is formed by combining the past tense of the auxiliary verb have with the past participle.
		In Spanish, the pluperfect (pluscuamperfecto, or antecopretérito) is (similarly) formed from the imperfect tense of the auxiliary verb haber plus the past participle.
		In Italian, the pluperfect (trapassato prossimo) is formed correspondingly to French by using the imperfect tense of the appropriate auxiliary verb (essere or avere) plus the past participle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pluperfect_tense (770 words)

	Grammatical aspect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It semantically corresponds to the distinction between the tenses known respectively as the aorist and imperfect in Greek, the preterite and imperfect in Spanish, the simple past (passé simple) and imperfect in French, and the perfect and imperfect in Latin.
		From this, the aspectual nature of the perfect tense was generalized into the perfect aspect, describing a previously completed action with relevance to a particular time.
		The two-way distinction here between imperfect and perfect is carried over into the terminology of various modern languages, such as the Slavic languages, where a distinction between "imperfective" and "perfective" aspect corresponds to a distinction between an event viewed as ongoing or with internal structure and an event viewed as a simple whole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammatical_aspect (3358 words)

	Learn Spanish Verbs: Imperfect Tense
		The imperfect tense is used to refer to actions in the past that occurred repeatedly.
		The imperfect tense is also used to refer to actions in the past that occurred over an extended period of time.
		The imperfect tense is also used to "set the stage" for an event that occurred in the past.
	www.studyspanish.com /verbs/lessons/impreg.htm (118 words)

	Imperfect tense: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past....
		The imperfective aspect, sometimes known as the continuous or progressive aspect, is a grammatical aspect....
		The present tense is the tense (form of a verb) that is often used to express:...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/im/imperfect_tense.htm (355 words)

	Greek Tenses
		The present tense may be used fairly frequently in narrative literature to portray a past event vividly, as though the reader were in the midst of the scene as it unfolds.
		The imperfect is often used to describe an action or state that is in progress in past time from the viewpoint of the speaker.
		The force of the pluperfect tense is that it describes an event that, completed in the past, has results that exist in the past as well (in relation to the time of speaking).
	www.bcbsr.com /greek/gtense.html (2115 words)

	Imperfect Tense - Help Me Learn Church Slavonic
		The imperfect tense is one of the past tenses of Church Slavonic.
		The imperfect tense should not be confused with imperfective aspect.
		The imperfect tense is formed only from verbs of the imperfective aspect.
	justin.zamora.com /slavonic/verbs/imperfect.html (118 words)

	Spanish Grammar: imperfect part one
		In a previous lesson, you learned that the imperfect is used for past actions that are not seen as completed.
		Use of the imperfect tense implies that the past action did not have a definite beginning or a definite end.
		The imperfect is used for actions that "set the stage" for another action.
	www.studyspanish.com /lessons/imp1.htm (206 words)

	IMPERFECT TENSE -BUSINESS SPANISH TUTORIALS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The Spanish imperfect tense has several meanings in English; the Spanish imperfect is used to describe actions that occurred repeatedly or habitually in the past.
		The imperfect tense is used to describe physical conditions or characteristics of people and things in the past:
		NOTE that the following expressions reflect a habitual or repeated action, which often require the use of the imperfect tense: siempre/ always, con frecuencia/ with frequency, generalmente/ generally, todos los días (horas, meses, años)/ every day (hour, month, year), and por lo general/ in general.
	www.businessspanish.com /LECCION/imperfect.htm (621 words)

	Greek Verbs (Shorter Definitions) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		In Greek, however, although time does bear upon the meaning of tense, the primary consideration of the tense of the verb is not time, but rather the 'kind of action' that the verb portrays.
		The basic thought of the perfect tense is that the progress of an action has been completed and the results of the action are continuing on, in full effect.
		This tense is only found in the indicative mood and is rarely used in the New Testament.
	www.ntgreek.org /learn_nt_greek/verbs1.htm (2210 words)

	Learning Spanish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The imperfect tense is also used to describe mental, physical, or emotional states in the past.
		3.Regular verbs in the imperfect tense are conjugated as follows: drop the "-ar," "-er," or "-ir" of the infinitive and add the following endings.
		Below are some words often seen with the imperfect tense.
	www.learningspanish.com /Imperfect.htm (166 words)

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		In the present tense, we added "o" at the end of the verb, and the infix was dropped.
		In the imperfect past tense, the infix "aba" remains and the "o" is no longer present.
		You probably can see that the infix for the past imperfect tense of the "e" category verbs is "ía" and you may have noticed that in all five forms the letter "i" has a written accent.
	www.bloomington.in.us /~rlee/website/tutor/imperf1.html (1998 words)

	Chapter 5
		In the present-tense system (present, imperfect, future), the Latin verb changes tense by the insertion of a tense sign between the base/thematic vowel and the personal ending.
		The Latin future and imperfect tenses are formed in a similar fashion, except that the imperfect uses -ba- as a tense marker and is translated as "was/were X-ing, used to X, kept on X-ing, X-ed," e.g.
		The imperfect tense shows habitual, continuous or incomplete action in the past.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/Latin1000/Chapters/05ch.htm (450 words)

	Preterite vs. Imperfect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		These tenses are frequently used in narrating past events in Spanish are the preterite and the imperfect.
		The imperfect tense usually describes conditions, acts already in progress, habitual or ongoing activities, feelings, emotions, and mental or physical states.
		These imperfect tense verbs frequently create the background in which the completed act preterite tense verb) occurred.
	www.uky.edu /~dfslad0/102/preimperf.html (140 words)

	The Imperfect Tense in Spanish
		The imperfect is one of two simple (that is, “non-compound”) past tenses in the indicative.
		To give descriptions in the past or paint the background (the imperfect sets the stage on which another action —typically given in the preterit— was performed).
		The imperfect tense is basically the present tense backshifted to past time; remember that the present tense —not the present perfect— is used to indicate an action begun in simple past time and continuing on into the present:
	users.ipfw.edu /jehle/courses/imperf.htm (363 words)

	Imperfect Tense Page
		The imperfect tense of irregular weak verbs is formed by adding the imperfect endings of weak verbs to an irregular past verb stem.
		The imperfect tense of modal verbs is formed by adding the imperfect endings of weak verbs to the verb stem minus any umlaut.
		The imperfect tense of strong verbs is formed by adding the following verb endings to the simple past stem of the verb:
	web1.caryacademy.org /german/miscellaneous/imperfekt.htm (207 words)

	Progreessive Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The progressive tenses are the six tenses in English which show continuous or repeated actions.
		The six progressive tenses correspond to the three basic and three perfect tenses.
		They are formed by the appropriate basic or perfect tense of the verb to be followed by the present participle.
	englishplus.com /grammar/00000365.htm (56 words)

	French 2
		This past tense corresponds to "was, were or used to." This tense is used for repeated, continuous, or ongoing actions; as well as for verbs that describe background and circumstances, such as weather, time, and physical, mental, and emotional states.
		However, verbs that express mental and emotional states that are descriptive in nature are generally used in the imperfect in a past context.
		It's formed with the imperfect tense of avoir or être and the past participle of the main verb.
	www.ielanguages.com /french2.html (3074 words)

	Imperfect Indicative Tense - Conjugation. - Spanish Language
		The Spanish Imperfect tense is used to refer or talk about past actions that took place over an indeterminate period of time, let’s say, actions not seen as finished.
		On the contrary, remember that there is another Spanish simple past tense, called Preterite, used to express actions that took place in the past, but with a concrete beginning and end (See Spanish past tenses: Preterit and Imperfect).
		To conjugate this tense, let’s first remember that there are 3 verbs categories: Verbs ending in —ar, in —er and in —ir.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art31791.asp (294 words)

	New Testament Greek - StudyLight.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The imperfect tense generally represents continual or repeated action.
		Where the present tense might indicate "they are asking," the imperfect would indicate "they kept on asking."
		In the case of the verb "to be," however, the imperfect tense is used as a general past tense and does not carry the connotation of continual or repeated action.
	www.studylight.org /isb/view.cgi?number=5707&tool=grk (84 words)

	Don Nicomedes: Vocabulary Notes
		Imperfect Subjunctive forms are used in show contrary-to-fact condition clauses.
		Present tense often is used to describe actions in the near future.
		Usted commands are built on the ‘yo’ present tense stem + the ‘reversed’ vowel; here it’s ‘e’ instead of ‘a’.
	www.highlands.k12.fl.us /~wedigr/donnicline.html (903 words)

	Preterit vs. imperfect in Spanish
		The preterit and imperfect are both simple (i.e., non-compound or one-word) tenses indicating a past-time action or state.
		Sometimes a given English past-tense sentence may be translated into Spanish with either the preterit or the imperfect, but these two tenses have different meanings or implications.
		The imperfect tense may be considered the present tense backshifted into past time.
	users.ipfw.edu /jehle/courses/PRETIMP.HTM (444 words)

	imperfect tense
		a single word) past tense for describing repeated actions in the past or conditions that last for an indefinite time or for descriptions in the past.
		In English, the equivalent tense is the continuous past or the structure used to....
		This is an easy tense to make in Italian; it has very few exceptions: each verb group adds a set of endings to the stem.
	www.gwc.org.uk /ModernLang/hotpot/Italian2/imperfecttense.html (364 words)

	The uses of the Spanish Preterite and Imperfect past tenses
		Trying to decide when to use the Preterite and when to use the Imperfect is one of the challenges of learning these two tenses.
		We generalize and say that the Imperfect is used to describe a scene and the Preterite is used to list series of completed actions.
		This is a series of actions in the Preterite which happened within the setting established by the Imperfect.
	www.drlemon.net /Grammar/pretvsimp.html (535 words)

	Verb Conjugations
		There is no real need to dilineate the conjugations for IR verbs apart from ER verbs outside of the present tense.
		The imperfect is given only to keep with the convention of this page.
		Normally for the future and the conditional you add these endings to the infinitive (as opposed to the stem) of the verb.
	bama.ua.edu /~woodr008/verbconjugations.html (284 words)

	Spanish Forum
		I'm a little bit confused with the imperfect tense.
		the difference b/t preterit and imperfect is as follows:
		The imperfect is used for telling past time and stating one's age.
	www.sipuebla.com /discus/messages/1/75.html?1099418985 (287 words)

	Imperfect Tense Games
		There should be a total of six (6) slices for Imperfect and two (2) each for Perfect, Present and Imperative.
		You can increase the interest by assigning point values of '1', '2', or '3' to each of the different divisions.
		Click here for the KEY to the Latin Tense Sample Game.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin3/grammar/games/tensegame.htm (464 words)

	Quia - Spanish 2/3: the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs
		Quia - Spanish 2/3: the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs
		Spanish 2/3: the imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs
		Practice using the imperfect tense in the following sentences.
	www.quia.com /tq/151830.html (52 words)

	Spanish Imperfect Verbs w/ Mp3
		verbs: (click for refreshers on present tense and preterite past tense).
		One thing you need to remember about the imperfect past tense—it is for activities that were ongoing or repeated; something you were doing in the past, or something you used to do.
		You take the patterns for imperfect verbs and apply them to the similar conjugation patterns for different people.
	www.spanish.bz /imperfect.htm (173 words)

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