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Example sentences for "past tense"

  • In all examples of this, and the preceding head, no will take a past tense after it.

  • The form gotten is little used, got being the preferred form of past participle as well as past tense.

  • Fulfilling has the form to denote continuance, but depends on the verb walked, which is past tense.

  • Must is present or past tense, according to the infinitive used.

  • Such a phrase is called the emphatic form of the present or past tense.

  • Can (past tense, could) regularly indicates that the subject +is able+ to do something.

  • Many +weak verbs+ show special irregularities in the +past tense+.

  • Changed to past tense), The guests began to go home.

  • Walked asserts the action as past, and is in the +Past Tense.

  • The Past Tense expresses action or being as past+.

  • Can a past tense, or combination, be used for a present?

  • The distinction (as far as it goes) between the participle passive and the past tense is likely to pass away.

  • Should [Greek: tuptoimi] be reduced to a past tense, or verberarem be considered an optative mood.

  • This present often stands side by side with a past tense.

  • It may be mentioned here, that the pluperfect is used in a subordinate sentence denoting time anterior to a past tense of repeated action.

  • Past tense applies to actions which are accomplished; as, I wrote a book; he recited his lesson.

  • As tense means time, we call the form crush the present tense of the verb, and crushed the past tense.

  • Of course he means brende, past tense, not brent, the past participle; and his conjecture amounts to inserting or before Thebes.

  • But secondly, the false rime detects the blunder at once; Chaucer does not rime the weak past tense wente with a past participle like yhent.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "past tense" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bicameral legislature; dear master; green peppers; like very; making their; night came; past ages; past eleven; past events; past five; past life; past nine; past seven; past ten; past tense; past three; past time; past twelve; paste made; pastoral poetry; pastoral staff; pastry flour; shall call; special assistant; water origin; will punish