Past-tense Sentence Examples

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  • I can talk about Jeff in the past tense now.

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  • When an action is expressed in the past the word which forms with the verb the past tense is divided from the verb itself by the object.

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  • So I wonder how you would say sentry go in the past tense?

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  • As a result, they had to evolve a new past-tense conjugation, which they borrowed from a different conjugation type.

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