past tenses
- plural of past tense.
Example Sentences
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“You might be scared of the weird alphabet or some of the cases of a single noun. But believe me, I was also scared by the multiple past tenses of English” and learned it anyway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022
But it allows many plurals, past tenses and contractions.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
“She is strong – spiritually, emotionally, mentally, physically,” says Ashley’s best friend from childhood Erica Denney, 22, so upset by her disappearance that she mixes the present and past tenses to describe her.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2019
The anecdotes glide between present and past tenses, providing the added intimacy of a born storyteller.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2016
Both past tenses have been around for hundreds of years, but since the sixteenth century it’s been customary to reserve hanged for referring to executions, and to use hung for other meanings.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
