past tense
narrative tense
the past tense

In the 17th century, the language was already very similar to its present-day form, although two of the past tenses were still used.

Past tenses are found in a variety of Asian languages.

In Ukrainian, the indicative mood contains the present, future, and past tenses.

The indicative mood has four tenses: present, future, and two past tenses.

Their past tenses are formed like weak verbs'.

Both races were also becoming more and more fluent in English, though they had trouble with past tenses of verbs.

Historically, there were two past tenses.

These rules are related to the 't kofschip-rule, which is used to determine the verb end for past tenses and participles.

There are four past tenses.

Review units comparing and contrasting large areas of study, such as present and past tenses, future forms and linking words.

Present and past tenses are unmarked in the language, and are distinguished by actual statements of time using words like "yesterday" or "today."

The indicative of past tenses adds (conceptually, at least) a prefix /e-/, called the augment.

Both Eastern and Western feature one present, one future, and two past tenses (imperfect, preterite).

For example, bore and found may be past tenses of bear and find, but may also represent independent (regular) verbs of different meaning.

An exception occurs when a completed action is reported in any of the past tenses (simple past, past progressive, present perfect or past perfect).

But for the most part "Past Tense" abounds in paradoxical turns of phrase that designate an absentee or intimate an unfathomable depth.

These will include forms of the verb to be, past tenses of a few highly frequent irregular verbs (e.g. do,see ), personal pronouns and negatives.

There are several verbal suffixes for both the future and past tenses, with allomorphs of all three of the future tense suffix markers .

In the past tenses (aorist and imperfect) and in the past participle the stress falls always on the ending and not on the stem.

The present and first past tenses are inflected, while the second and third past and both future tenses are different words marked by auxiliary verbs.

(The forms could, might, should and would are considered to be the past tenses of can, may, shall and will respectively, although they are not always used as such.)

In French language, it is a generally found denotation as many words, such as masculine and feminine adjective endings, or the past tenses of some verbs, are homophone.

The words and rules model contradicts previous ideas (both connectionist and orthodox Chomskyan) hypothesizing that irregular past tenses are the result of rules applied based on phonological similarities.

He performed several songs from his new album, "Past Tense," at a recent Sunday afternoon concert at Manhattanville College here, where he is an adjunct professor in the music department.

The basic present and past tenses of the verb are called simple present (present simple) and simple past (past simple), to distinguish them from progressive or other compound forms.