Crossword-Solution: PRETERITS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRETERITS | anagram | PRETERIST |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PRETERITS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Verb forms used for actions completed in the past | 1 answer |
| Past tenses | 1 answer |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with PRETERITS (3)
She knew, of course, that people of different countries were liable to be found speaking their own languages; but somehow the spectacle of the chattering multitude, all seeming so perfectly at ease with their preterits and subjunctives and never once having to refer to Ollendorf or a dictionary, filled her with a sense of dismayed surprise.
The weak preterits in -ode have all been leveled under the ed-forms, and of the three hundred strong verbs in Old English more than two hundred have become weak.
With regard to tenses, he gives eight preterits and four futures; and it cannot be said that they are formed simply by adding adverbs of time, as the theme itself takes a different form in several of them, _aran_, _aras_, _aragts_, etc.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1995–1999).