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Significats de preterite en anglès

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The grammatical tense expressing actions which took place in the past.

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Ús de preterite en anglès
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There are no preterite storytellers, Harry; remember that.
The dream of perpetual motion
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Thus Ya enters into the future tense, and Zi in the preterite of all verbs requiring auxiliaries.
The Coming Race
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Thus, in all verbs the preterite and the past participle were the same and ended in -ED.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
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And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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How can one tell the story of the finish in cold-blooded preterites?
A Mortal Antipathy
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The Chayma and Tamanac verbs have an enormous complication of tenses: two Presents, four Preterites, three Futures.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of Amer...
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These lines suggest that the fight between Marduk and Tiâmat was recurrent; it is incorrect to translate the verbal forms as preterites.
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
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2 Give the preterites and past participles of the following verbs: lie, lay, sit, set, raise, rise, dive.
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