PAST TENSE


Meaning of PAST TENSE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ noun ]

Date: 1813

: a verb tense expressing action or state in or as if in the past:

a. : a verb tense expressive of elapsed time (as wrote in “on arriving I wrote a letter”)

b. : a verb tense expressing action or state in progress or continuance or habitually done or customarily occurring at a past time (as was writing in “I was writing while he dictated” or loved in “their sons loved fishing”)

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