"present" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The term first appeared in wide use shortly after the turn of the 20th century and has been used since in roughly its present meaning.
- These verbs have acquired an independent, present tense meaning.
- Sometimes the intransitive form of a perfect has a present meaning.
- "Patrick is awesome," Thomas said, his use of the present tense meaning he didn't view this as any kind of aberration.
- In oral societies, Crain writes, "words have their present meanings but no older ones.
- NO, it's merely the origins of its present meaning.
- It is used with present or occasionally even future meaning.
- This word originated sometime in the 19th century the word "Tango", but not yet its present meaning.
- He had 487 stolen bases from 1888 through 1897, and 107 more after the statistic was redefined to its present meaning in 1898.
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