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Chthonic wants to know about awful, terrible things you have definitely never done. But secretly have. Confess!

(, Thu 15 Sep 2011, 13:16)
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Pfffffffff.
No one says imperfect anymore. I see it as the past continuous in the noun phrase because the classes were a continuous action at the time of the story. That's why we use the past continuous to set the scene at the beginning of a narrative.
(, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:35, 1 reply)
^^^ This

(, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 10:53, closed)
I was walking down the street one day,
I saw a house on fire.
There was a man shouting and screaming from the top floor,
For he was sore afraid.

BRING BACK THE IMPERFECT! Brought to you by the Classicist Old Farts Association.
(, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 11:20, closed)
Oh, don't get me wrong.
I understand we still need to use imperfect to describe the mood of some past verbal phrases, but I feel that no one uses it to describe subject+was/were+present participle anymore.
(, Wed 21 Sep 2011, 11:40, closed)

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