This occurs especially in the present and preterit, i.e. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ROMANIKA.] Reference
I'm french and I wouldn't know for sure, but why couldn't it be a preterit, as David above implied ?. From Wordnik.com. [How many English degrees does it take...] Reference
I recently introduced them to the preterit and imperfect. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Do and did are thus used only for the present and simple preterit. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
Present: expressed by lack of preterit suffix in verb; and by suffixed - s. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference
Lie is an intransitive verb, of which the preterit is lay and the past participle lain. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Spanish Lyrics] Reference
Bear in mind that lay is a transitive verb, of which the preterit and the past participle are laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formation of the preterit, and its participle. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
Below is a link to a handout I created that I give my students with preterit on one side and imperfect on the other. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Give, bid, sit, make in the preterit gave, bade, sate; in the participle passive given, bidden, sitten; but in both bid. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
Present tou for estou, tás for estás, &c; preterit tava for estava, tavas for estavas, &c. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ROMANIKA.] Reference
122 The science of hym..lokith in his simple knowynge alle thingis of preterit ryght as thei weren idoon presently ryght now. c1450 1410 J. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Those Illiterates — Chaucer, Sir Walter Scott, and Ruskin:] Reference
Use the preterit when you wish. From Wordnik.com. [Pret�rito vs. Imperfecto] Reference
Maybe a colloquial preterit, but still. From Wordnik.com. [How many English degrees does it take...] Reference
369. dugan is a "preterit-present" verb, with new wk. preterit, like sculan, durran, magan, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
967, 1561.l. 1487. "findan sometimes has a preterit funde in W.S. after the manner of the weak preterits.". From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf] Reference
Reves Tale "line 329, however, Chaucer uses, it in a context of past tenses, as Coleridge does here, as if it were a weak preterit; and. From Wordnik.com. [Rime of the ancient mariner] Reference
There are other anomalies in the preterit. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
What if we add the preterit tense suffix - it?. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6. Types of Linguistic Structure] Reference
It was a preterit / imperfect. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Imperfect or preterit?. From Wordnik.com. [Carl Franz on learning Spanish for Mexico] Reference
preterit and imperfect latest entry older. From Wordnik.com. [stochastic Diary Entry] Reference
The preterit tense. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Participle preterit. From Wordnik.com. [A Grammar of the English Tongue] Reference
V.a. preterit ll#VrM, Cc£6 (r. From Wordnik.com. [A dictionary of the English language. Abstracted from the folio ed., by the author. To which is ...] Reference
(present, preterit, imperfect, and future)?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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