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The imperfect tense is a past tense. There are three reasons why we might use the imperfect tense and these can be remembered as: habitual, incomplete and descriptive. What does 'habitual' mean? Habitual ...

J’habite à Lichfield qui se trouve au centre d’Angleterre. À 30 kilomètres au sud, il y a la ville de Birmingham, tandis qu’à environ 200 kilomètres au sud-est, il y a la capitale, Londres.

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It is a tense to express a doubt or a wish such as "I wish it were sunny."

It's constructed in the present tense by taking the 'Ils' form, removing the ending and adding e, es, e, ions, i...

We use the present tense when we're describing what we're doing now or something we do regularly. Examples: Je vais au cinema Je joue au foot Phrases we use with the pres...

So the passé composé (simple past) and imparfait (imperfect) might seem very similar since they both describe actions in the past. However there are some important differences. The key thing to remember i...