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11 Cards in this Set
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Imperfect displays what kind of aspect?
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Internal Aspect
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Imperfect portrays the action as it ___________.
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unfolds
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With reference to time, the imperfect is almost always _________.
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past
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Progressive Imperfect
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"was (right then) happening"
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Ingressive Imperfect
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"he began doing"
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What imperfect stresses the beginning of an action, implying that it continues?
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Ingressive Imperfect
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Iterative Imperfect
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"kept on doing, going, etc."
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What are the two types of iterative imperfects?
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Iterative proper (repeated action by the same agent) and distributive imperfect (individual acts of multiple agents)
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Customary Imperfect
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Customarily, habitually, continually (regularly recurring activity past time)
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Imperfect Retained in Indirect Discourse
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Indirect discourse occurs after a verb of perception (saying, thinking, believing, knowing, seeing, hearing)...may be introduced by oti, legwv, eipen
Usually pushed one slot back in tense |
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Translational category of the imperfect not a syntactical
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Imperfect Retained in Indirect Discourse
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