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I once had someone ask me what the "preterite" of a certain verb was. I was able to guess what she meant, but I definitely did not know that word from my experi
by pgcj_poster 7y ago
I once had someone ask me what the "preterite" of a certain verb was. I was able to guess what she meant, but I definitely did not know that word from my experience speaking English.
- taejo 7y agoThis is kind of a borderline case, since the term "preterite" is recognized by English grammarians as a synonym of "simple past tense", but to use it probably is an influence by e.g. German Präteritum or French prétérit (which seems to be used in teaching English even though the syntactically corresponding French verb form is called the "simple past").