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past tenses

past tenses is the plural of past tense.

Meaning of past tense

Noun

past tense (plural past tenses)

  1. A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).
    • This is a report on a study of the use of the past tense forms in the 53 Japanese samples compiled for the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage (LINDSEI) project.2004, Tomoko Koneko, “The Use of Past Tense Forms by Japanese Learners of English”, in Junsaku Nakamura, Nagayuki Inoue, Tomoji Tabata, editors, English Corpora under Japanese Eyes, Rodopi, page 215

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Questions about past tenses

What is past tenses the plural of?
Past tenses is the plural of past tense.

Words near past tenses in the dictionary

  1. past progressive
  2. past redemption
  3. past simple
  4. past simples
  5. past tense
  6. past tenses
  7. past the point of
  8. past time
  9. past-due
  10. past-life
  11. past-master

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