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preterit

 

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Noun preterit has 1 sense
  1. preterit, preterite - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
    --1 is a kind of past, past tense

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Preterit

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense: The preterit is a grammatical tense that expresses actions or states completed in the past.

Usage: In English, the preterit is often used to narrate a past event or to express completed actions at specific times in the past.

Example sentence: The boy jumped over the fence and landed safely on the other side.

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Part of Speech: Adjective

Sense: Referring to something relating to or denoting the preterit tense.

Usage: The preterit adjective is commonly used to describe verbs or sentence structures in grammar.

Example sentence: In the preterit form, the verb "run" becomes "ran" when expressing actions in the past.

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Part of Speech: Adverb

Sense: Describing an action that occurred in the past tense.

Usage: Adverbs in the preterit form modify verbs and indicate when an action happened.

Example sentence: She sang beautifully during the preterit period of her musical career.

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Part of Speech: Verb

Sense: The act of using the preterit tense when speaking or writing.

Usage: Writers often preterit their sentences to convey a sense of past time or evoke nostalgia.

Example sentence: I preterited most of my narrative to provide a historical context.

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