How To Use preterite In A Sentence
- He preserves the peculiarity of the Ionians for the preterite tenses of verbs the aphaeresis, as where he says [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted]. Essays and Miscellanies
- Shelley may have first seen the word in "The Ancient Mariner"; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seems to have mistaken it for a preterite-form (= 'uprose') whereas in truth it serves either as the third person singular of the present (= 'upriseth'), or, as here, for the verbal substantive (= 'uprising'). The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1
- Imperative (prejective), conjunctive or optative (subjective), preterite or perfect (trajective), neutral indicative (objective) are grammatical necessities arising out of times and spaces. Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
- But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
- You can't even distinguish between the preterite and participle Germanic ablauts of English.
- The form knew is the preterite tense form of know.
- However, it's crucial that the second part of such a sentence (the apodosis of the conditional) normally also has a modal preterite, often would or could or might, but not will or can or may.
- We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms. Archive 2009-08-01
- That minimum is represented in English by verbs such as must and ought, which are modal verb with no preterite (inflected past tense).
- Once you have the command of the present tense, the preterite is then taught. Learning Spanish
