41 examples of preterite in sentences

(The connecting link may be seen in the preterite form zog.)

Bishop Latimer used the preterite shew, which Mr. Bartlett, in his "Dictionary of Americanisms," pronounces to be the shibboleth of Bostonians.

"If we analize a conjunctive preterite, the rule will not appear to hold.

"Many verbs form both the preterite tense and the preterite participle irregularly."Ib., p. 28.

"Many verbs form both the preterite tense and the preterite participle irregularly."Ib., p. 28.

"The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came.

"The preterite of read is pronounced red."Ib., p. 48.

Dr. Priestley observes, "There is a remarkable ambiguity in the use of the participle preterite, as the same word may express a thing either doing, or done; as, I went to see the child dressed.

"Qu has the power of kw, therefore quit doubles the final consonant in forming its preterite."Ib., p. 103.

"For High Style use the Preterite, For Common use the Past, In compound verbal tenses Put the Participle last.

Principal Parts.+The main forms of the verbso important as to be called the principal parts because the other parts are formed from them are the root infinitive, the preterite (past) indicative, and the past participle [move, moved, moved; sing, sang, sung; be, was, been].

There are three primary tenses: present, preterite (past), and future; and three secondary tenses for completed action:present perfect, past perfect (pluperfect), and future perfect.

English has only two simple tenses, the present and the preterite: I love, I loved.

The formation of the preterite tense, and the consequent division of verbs into strong and weak, will be discussed later.

The verb to be has the following indicative and subjunctive forms in the present and preterite: IND.

Thou were PRESENT { He is He be PRETERITE {

The preterite refers to present time.

It has been the custom to call all verbs which form the preterite and past participle by adding -d or -ed to the present, regular verbs [love, loved, loved], and to call all others irregular.

The weak verbs are those which form the preterite by adding -ed, -d, or -t to the present: love, loved.

All verbs which form the preterite without the addition of an ending are strong verbs.

PRESENT PRETERITE PAST

CAUTION.Do not confuse the preterite with the past participle.

Vowels are "with stress" when they are the finals in the plurals of nouns and verbs, also in the perfect preterite, in possessives ending in â, ê, ô, and in the penultimate of nouns ending in tli, tla and tle when these syllables are immediately preceded by the vowel.

Illustrate by an original sentence preterite and past participle of the following verbs.

In using the verbs drink, ring, shrink, sing, sink, spring, swim, it seems better to confine the forms in "a" to the preterite tense, and the forms in "u" to the past participle: as, "The bell rang five minutes ago"; "Yes, the bell has rung.

41 examples of  preterite  in sentences