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Definition of Imperfects
1. imperfect [n] - See also: imperfect
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imperfects
Literary usage of Imperfects
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language: In which Its Forms are by Francis Andrew March (1877)
"SYNCOPATED imperfects (Weak). (a.) Stem -e < -ia is syncopated after long roots:
ctg-an, ... PAST PARTICIPLES are syncopated like imperfects in verbs having ..."
2. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1901)
"They are therefore by origin really members of the active voice. 501. In Latin
all imperfects are made by a Latin imperfects suffix-6am. ..."
3. William R. Harper's Elements of Hebrew by an Inductive Method by William Rainey Harper (1921)
"It will be seen later that the stem-vowel of the Imperative varies with that of
the Imperfect. 65. The Remaining imperfects [For full inflection, ..."
4. Modern English by Fitzedward Hall (1873)
"ENGLISH imperfects PASSIVE. Who is so bold as blind Bayard ?—Old Proverb. "
ALL really well educated in the English tongue lament the many innovations ..."
5. An Apologie for Poetrie by Philip Sidney (1891)
"imperfects: but as usual he quotes from memory and incorrectly the verse of
Ovid (Tristia, 4, 10, ..."
6. A Latin Grammar: On the System of Crude Forms by Thomas Hewitt Key (1846)
"Two verbs have only the perfect in use, and these translated by English imperfects
of static meaning, viz. ..."
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