The imperfect tense can describe an unfinished, ongoing, or recurring action in the past.
In English:
The imperfect tense has something called a temporal augmentor. This just means a sound that is put into the verb to show that it
The temporal augmentor for the imperfect tense is -ba- . My middle school Latin teacher used to say (btw... "used to" is an example of imperfect!) that we could remember it by thinking about sheep. Sheep say "ba" and sheep are imperfect, because if sheep were perfect, they would rule the world. It might seem a little stupid and childish, but it has helped me remember it.
In English:
- I was laughing so hard.
- She used to go to my school.
- My dog kept finding ways to get into the garden, even when we put up a fence.
The imperfect tense has something called a temporal augmentor. This just means a sound that is put into the verb to show that it
The temporal augmentor for the imperfect tense is -ba- . My middle school Latin teacher used to say (btw... "used to" is an example of imperfect!) that we could remember it by thinking about sheep. Sheep say "ba" and sheep are imperfect, because if sheep were perfect, they would rule the world. It might seem a little stupid and childish, but it has helped me remember it.
