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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For instance, the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive.
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For the next three weeks my career was in the past tense .
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Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.
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The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense .
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This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.