These survived the movement toward the formalization of the language which began with the eighteenth century, but scores of other such misplaced preteriteswere driven out.
It may be said to be characteristic of the southern dialects to form new weak preterites to originally strong verbs.
Examples of old strong verbs which have acquired new weak preterites are: bear, beared, Bch.
Examples of verbs which have preserved old strong preterites are: bind, ban(d (O.
The older preteritesof this verb are heolp, help, halp.
Instances of verbs with weak preterites in Chaucer, but strong ones in modern English, are rare indeed; but there are several instances of the contrary, e.
These have old strong preterites for their presents, from which new weak preteritesare formed.
The strong-weak verbs have for their presents old strong preterites, from which new weak preterites are formed.
Smaragd,† preteritesand participles of verbs in AG.
Concoct, rhymes thepreterites and participles of verbs in OCK.
Rhymes, the preterites and participles of verbs in AP.
Abrupt, corrupt, interrupt, the participles and preterites of verbs in UP, etc.
As in "rescind"), preterites and participles of verbs in IN.
Next, pretext, and the preterites and participles of verbs in EX.
World, rhymes with the preterites and participles of verbs in URL and IRL.
Pied, side, sighed, rhymes with preterites and participles of verbs in Y or IE.
Hoist, moist, foist,§ the preteritesand participles of verbs in OICE.
The frequent use of the Preterites would prove something in support of it, provided only we were not standing on prophetical ground.
Page 987 The subjunctive present and thre preterites is lyke the optative, puttyng before the verbe, ueu, or come, etc.
Indeed, the anomalies in English preterites are perplexing.
Of weak preterites the Yankee retains growed, blowed, for which he has good authority, and less often knowed.
The ancient translators too have not understood the Preterites as a designation of the real Past, and frequently render them by Futures.
Gesenius was constrained to remark: "As the deliverance was still impending, the Preterites cannot well be understood in any other way than as Futures.
The Preterites are to be explained from the circumstance that the Singer as a seer has the Future before his eyes.
If any one should imagine that from the use of these Preterites he were entitled to infer that the subject of the prophecy must, at that time, already have been born, he must also, on account of the Preterites in vers.
The writer, however, of a paper on English preterites and genitives, in the Philological Museum (II.
Yet, such is the similarity between Gothic and Anglo-Saxon that we cannot doubt their preterites having been formed on the same last.
These have strong preterites with a present meaning, from which new weak preterites have been formed.
Preterites and participles he constantly confounds, and registers this class of blunders for ever by the cast-iron index of rhymes that never can mend.
A critic who imagines that such cumbrous preterites as astertede and bigilede were in common use, should be asked to read Middle-English authors till he meets with a few examples of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preterites" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
