past imperfect tense

noun

Definitions

  1. A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the…

    A grammatical tense which expresses the past as an action which was still going on at the point in time described, say someone "was ...ing" something, as opposed to the already accomplished counterpart past perfect tense (where the action took place even further in the past)

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for past imperfect tense. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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