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| Progressive (Descriptive) |
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| the movie camera tense, this is a moving panorama vividly picturing linear, ongoing action or state in persistence, in the past time |
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| Refers to action not separated from the (present or past) moment of speaking by any recognized interval of time. |
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| Ingressive (Inchoative, Inceptive) |
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| imperfect stresses the commencement of an act (state) that began and continued in the past time. |
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| action that happened repeatedly (......) at successive intervals in the past. |
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| Customary (General, Habitual) |
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| This expresses action occurring at regular but distant intervals over a long period of time, as in habits, traditions, fixed celebrations. |
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| This indicates past action planned or desired or attempted, but not actually accomplished. |
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| This expresses an attainable or unattainable wish contemplated in present time. |
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| This imperfect states a requirement or prerequisite fulfilled or unfulfilled in past time. |
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| This expresses what could have taken place in past time, but did not |
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| The imperfect specifies that which occurs at the present time in accord with the rules of decorum. |
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| The imperfect sometimes has punctiliar action in certain instances of verbs of speaking. |
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