How To Use Preterit In A Sentence
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For the second kind of Predestination places election, with regard to the end, before the fall; it also places before that event preterition, [or passing by,] which is the first part of reprobation.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Are they Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as dodoes?
Gravity's Rainbow
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(Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.")
OUPblog
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In the first clause, the preterite verb cerine precedes what may be two nouns, pul and alumnaθ.
Etruscan syntactic inversion
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I'm not asking that you be able to name the preterit, imperfect, and subjunctive forms of the verb ‘to be.’
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However, it's crucial that the second part of such a sentence (the apodosis of the conditional) normally also has a modal preterite, often would or could or might, but not will or can or may.
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We can now readily see from the above list that Hittite's 3ps preterite is identical to the experiential form sigmatic aorist, complete with the long *ē vocalism that tags non-punctive verbs.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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While listening to her teacher ramble about the preterit tense, Margaret felt a sharp pain at her side.
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In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists.
Modern Spanish Lyrics
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Both of them have a raft of irregular preterites and past participles, suggesting long standing confusion.
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So the preterite of the hi-class is nothing more than a matter of a former sigmatic experiential, already with momentaneous meaning, replacing the expected form *CóC-e.
Looking for a simple origin to Hittite's hi-class preterite
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Paralipsis, also known as praeteritio, preterition, cataphasis, antiphrasis, or parasiopesis, is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked.
Obama says George Bush is "a good guy," "a good man," and "a good person."
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So now look at this sentence, with the preterite form could.
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Indeed no others are damned, except those who are the subjects of this act of preterition.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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I'm french and I wouldn't know for sure, but why couldn't it be a preterit, as David above implied ?
How many English degrees does it take...
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The verbal forms in-_ara_ and-_iera_ were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.
Modern Spanish Lyrics
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This category is the origin of root aorists and imperfective past in Core IE while becoming the mi-class preterite in Anatolian.
New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective
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A simple preterite rather than a perfect form is sometimes used for action leading up to the present time, even with adverbs: Did you ever hear that?; I already did it.
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The word trinaχe is immediately recognizable by the Etruscan verb trin attested several times in the Liber Linteus and appears to be marked by passive -aχ- and preterite -e, just as we would find in Etruscan.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Formally, this is not far from the truth, but it is generally recognized now that there are actually three different PCs: the imperfect (PC1), the preterite (PC2) and the jussive-cohortative (PC3).
Ralph the Sacred River
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But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
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Both shed and crown could therefore be taken as preterites.
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That, dear readers, was as fine an example of preterition as you're likely to see on the Internet on a Wednesday morning.
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If Iago / Janus sees backward, he also most of the time speaks backward through the use of preterition or chiasmus, in which the language is turned at one and the same time both ways, towards the right and towards the left.
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Two means are fore-ordained for the execution of the act of preterition: (1.)
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Third, Olson raises this objection in the context of preterition and reprobation (he never uses the term preterition and seems to be unaware of this important distinction).
Triablogue
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He preserves the peculiarity of the Ionians for the preterite tenses of verbs the aphaeresis, as where he says [Greek omitted] for [Greek omitted].
Essays and Miscellanies
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As Nadelmann notes, it is now acceptable to admit pot smoking as preterit (thanks, Barack), a big step forward from the awkward half-admissions of the 1990s.
Daniel Denvir: I, Pot Smoker
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For example, one gives you a choice between sneaked and snuck as the preterite of sneak.
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The second of these reasons is that which states the two parts of reprobation to be preterition and predamnation.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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In Tables 4 and 5, the present and preterite paradigms of the indicative mood of the strong verb bindan (to bind) and of the weak verb heran (to hear) are set out for comparison.
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Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A particular mode or signification is when it is opposed to election, and designates non-election or preterition (a Latin phrase derived from forensic use) in which sense the fathers used it according to the common use of the Latins.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 3
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I'm not asking that you be able to name the preterit, imperfect, and subjunctive forms of the verb ‘to be.’
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New England settlers, true believers in election and preterition, helped found a country where free will is given vast rein.
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Present: expressed by lack of preterit suffix in verb; and by suffixed - s
Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
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Once you have the command of the present tense, the preterite is then taught.
Learning Spanish
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That minimum is represented in English by verbs such as must and ought, which are modal verb with no preterite (inflected past tense).
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¿Ha aprendido V. bien la diferencia entre el preterito y el imperfecto?
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.)
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Moreover when they tell me, one tells me the word in the infinitive mood, another in the indicative; one in the first, another in the second person; one in the present, another in the preterit.
Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
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We need only compare the resulting hi-class presentive *CóC-e-i with a would-be preterite **CóC-e to understand that the change certainly helped to better phonetically distinguish between two almost homophonous forms.
Archive 2009-08-01
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However, it's crucial that the second part of such a sentence (the apodosis of the conditional) normally also has a modal preterite, often would or could or might, but not will or can or may.
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The form knew is the preterite tense form of know.
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You can't even distinguish between the preterite and participle Germanic ablauts of English.
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But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
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As far as we are capable of comprehending their scheme of reprobation it consists of two acts, that of preterition and that of predamnatian.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
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Their doctrine of election, they are free to tell us, for example, does certainly involve a corresponding doctrine of preterition.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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Imperative (prejective), conjunctive or optative (subjective), preterite or perfect (trajective), neutral indicative (objective) are grammatical necessities arising out of times and spaces.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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This occurs especially in the present and preterit, i.e.
Languagehat.com: ROMANIKA.
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Shelley may have first seen the word in "The Ancient Mariner"; but he employs it more correctly than Coleridge, who seems to have mistaken it for a preterite-form (= 'uprose') whereas in truth it serves either as the third person singular of the present (= 'upriseth'), or, as here, for the verbal substantive (= 'uprising').
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1
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The teachers tried to maintain their authority, and made it seem like they knew what they were talking about when they utilized pretentious verbiage and pompous diction in dissertation of the preterit occurences.
Bard Diary Entry
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In my Donatus, quoth Friar John, I could find yet but three times or tenses, the preterit, the present, and the future; doubtless here the fourth ought to be a work of supererogation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
