How To Use Preterite In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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You can't even distinguish between the preterite and participle Germanic ablauts of English.
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The form knew is the preterite tense form of know.
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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.
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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
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That minimum is represented in English by verbs such as must and ought, which are modal verb with no preterite (inflected past tense).
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Once you have the command of the present tense, the preterite is then taught.
Learning Spanish
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Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In Tables 4 and 5, the present and preterite paradigms of the indicative mood of the strong verb bindan (to bind) and of the weak verb heran (to hear) are set out for comparison.
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For example, one gives you a choice between sneaked and snuck as the preterite of sneak.
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Are they Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as dodoes?
Gravity's Rainbow
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Both shed and crown could therefore be taken as preterites.
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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.
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Formally, this is not far from the truth, but it is generally recognized now that there are actually three different PCs: the imperfect (PC1), the preterite (PC2) and the jussive-cohortative (PC3).
Ralph the Sacred River
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The word trinaχe is immediately recognizable by the Etruscan verb trin attested several times in the Liber Linteus and appears to be marked by passive -aχ- and preterite -e, just as we would find in Etruscan.
Archive 2008-04-01
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A simple preterite rather than a perfect form is sometimes used for action leading up to the present time, even with adverbs: Did you ever hear that?; I already did it.
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This category is the origin of root aorists and imperfective past in Core IE while becoming the mi-class preterite in Anatolian.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
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So now look at this sentence, with the preterite form could.
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So the preterite of the hi-class is nothing more than a matter of a former sigmatic experiential, already with momentaneous meaning, replacing the expected form *CóC-e.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
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Both of them have a raft of irregular preterites and past participles, suggesting long standing confusion.
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We can now readily see from the above list that Hittite's 3ps preterite is identical to the experiential form sigmatic aorist, complete with the long *ē vocalism that tags non-punctive verbs.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
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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.
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In the first clause, the preterite verb cerine precedes what may be two nouns, pul and alumnaθ.
Etruscan syntactic inversion
