IMPERFECT TENSE

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Meaning:

A tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("imperfect tense" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imperfect tense"):

present progressive; present progressive tense (a tense used to express action that is on-going at the time of utterance)

past progressive; past progressive tense (a progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past)

future progressive; future progressive tense (a progressive tense used to express action that will be on-going in the future)