THE IMPERFECT TENSE The Imperfect Tense: Expresses action that took place repeatedly or customarily...
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Transcript of THE IMPERFECT TENSE The Imperfect Tense: Expresses action that took place repeatedly or customarily...
The Imperfect Tense:• Expresses action that took place
repeatedly or customarily in the past
• Is often translated with the helping verb “was” or “were”
• Has a special set of verb endings
Add the imperfect endings to an infinitive, minus the -re
amare - re = ama + bam
amabam=I used to love
The imperfect of fourth conjugation verbs and third “-io” verbs has an IE before the imperfect endings:
Capiebam, faciebas, audiebat, veniebat, etc.