| 单词 | past tense |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspast tense 4. Grammar. Chiefly attributive. Of a tense: expressing an action that has happened or a state that previously existed; designating a form of that tense. Chiefly in past tense (also asadj. and in extended use).For the names of particular tenses and verbal forms, see Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [noun] > past preterite1530 pretera1626 past tense1729 past1783 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective] > past preteritea1450 perfectc1450 preterc1450 past1729 preteritive?1730 1729 T. Cooke Tales 204 I am certain that the passed Tenses of sit and see, which are sat and saw, will not be well sounding if this Rule is observed. 1753 J. Bevis Pocket Dict. or Compl. Eng. Expositor 10 The past tense generally ends in -ed as, I danced. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xl. 75 The past tense, The dreary ‘Fuimus’ of all things human. 1904 C. T. Onions Advanced Eng. Syntax §118 In the earlier period of Old English..the Past tense form had the meanings of the Past, Past Imperfect, Present Perfect, and Pluperfect of Latin. 1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xxviii. 286 No need to think anything. It's all past tense now. 1990 Pract. Eng. Teaching Dec. 67/2 If it snowed at Christmas, we'd make a snowman... It is a past form of the first conditional. (It did not always snow, but when it did, we made a snowman.) 2002 Times 11 Feb. ii. 31/4 A few of Margaret's close friends [were filmed], all speaking of her in the past tense. < as lemmas |
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