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- noun Plural form of
perfective .
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Examples
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Another translator may reassign the perfectives, imperfectives, and present participles in altogether different patterns, to form a different arrangement of foreground and background, shading the narrative in a different way.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000
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We oddly expect the total reverse: subjectives yielding imperfectives and objectives yielding perfectives.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective 2009
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We oddly expect the total reverse: subjectives yielding imperfectives and objectives yielding perfectives.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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As an engineering physicist I have been taught to look at problems from many different perfectives and examine cause and effect in great detail, an approach I know you are intimately familiar with Brian.
Expect a Homeland Security Threat Level Ramp-Up Sometime Today « Whatever 2006
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As an engineering physicist I have been taught to look at problems from many different perfectives and examine cause and effect in great detail, an approach I know you are intimately familiar with Brian.
Expect a Homeland Security Threat Level Ramp-Up Sometime Today « Whatever 2006
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