Sentence examples for imperfect tense from inspiring English sources

Why not the characteristic imperfect tense that gives the novel its pervading tone of sadness and illusion?

The use of the past imperfect tense— c'etait, this was, Paris in the very name of the 1970 contest suggests that the camera's products were part of history even before the shutter opened.

But in the Hebrew original, the text says almost exactly the opposite of this: The Hebrew "I will be what I will be" is in the imperfect tense, suggesting to us a God who is incomplete and changing.

"And he spoke French so well," one French journalist after another points out, forgetting that LeMond was as lost as Armstrong in the past imperfect tense, not to mention the subjunctive, early in his career.

The children steal food, come late to school, stay out till all hours, and run naked in the streets, and although Le Besco films them with intimate complicity, her coolly literary voice-over contemplates their adventures with the detachment of a victorious survivor; the result is a film in the imperfect tense.

Note that it is also arguably possible that the yod (y) is to be associated with the second morpheme (as a marker of the imperfect tense), rather than the first.

The "Present" and "Imperfect" tenses denote continuous or repeated action.

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In particular, the inclusion of features related to number-gender agreement and regular imperfect verb tense benefited the tool.

Take the imperfect subjunctive tense, for instance: "Not even my grandmother spoke like that!" complains one girl.

His 2001 solo album, "Past Imperfect, Present Tense" (Jetset), puts a boyishly sincere Paul McCartney voice into songs that can be sneakily sardonic.