It may be a good rule in a sense that if you use it you will be much more often right than wrong, but, concerning the second part, native speakers are often quite happy with both kinds of verbs:
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It may be a good rule in a sense that if you use it you will be much more often right than wrong, but, concerning the second part, native speakers are often quite happy with both kinds of verbs:
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My book says
пора + imperfect infinitive = "it is time to"
пора + perfect infinitive = "it is necessary to"
It just takes an infinitive (it is time + infinitive (to...)). The aspect of the verb depends entirely on the meaning/context -- can be either.
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