Your terminology is confused. imply = base verb and present tense verb form ( I, we, you, they imply; to imply ) implies = 3rd person singular present verb form ( he, she, it implies ). In all uses, it is a transitive verb, that is, it requires an object: She implied that I was drunk .
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