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past tense

NOUN
  1. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

How To Use past tense In A Sentence

  • Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.
  • That past tense is telling. Times, Sunday Times
  • That past tense is telling. Times, Sunday Times
  • In particular, the writer was criticizing people for writing "hurted" instead of the plain "hurt" for the past tense and past participle. On boilt
  • It's no secret that this was the case, but these comments were all made in the past tense.
  • Pashto has a rich agreement mechanism, but one that is manifested differently in the present and past tenses.
  • I have often encountered holloed in the past tense. Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary
  • That minimum is represented in English by verbs such as must and ought, which are modal verb with no preterite (inflected past tense).
  • The past tense implies at the same time the certainty of it, as also that in this life a kind of foretaste in Christ is already given [Grotius] (Jer 6: 16; Mt 11: 28, 29). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • In the past tense configuration, however, the Pashto agreement system is ergative: the Agreement is verb - subject agreement with intransitives, but verb - object agreement with transitives.
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