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imperfect tense
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | imperfect tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-goingcontinuous tense, imperfect, progressive, progressive tensetense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of timepresent progressive, present progressive tense - a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterancepast progressive, past progressive tense - a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past; "`I had been running' is an example of the past progressive"future progressive, future progressive tense - a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future; "`I will be running' is an example of the future progressive" |
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Synonyms for imperfect tensenoun a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-goingSynonyms- continuous tense
- imperfect
- progressive
- progressive tense
Related Words- tense
- present progressive
- present progressive tense
- past progressive
- past progressive tense
- future progressive
- future progressive tense
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