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Definition of non-past in English: non-pastadjective Grammar Relating to or denoting a tense not expressing a past action or state.
noun Grammar A non-past tense. Example sentencesExamples - Intransitive, transitive, causative forms, past and non-past tenses (there was no future tense in Old Tamil), participal and verbal nouns, adjectival participles and the infinitive are found in the language of the inscriptions.
- At the moment, tread is still the only Standard English non-past form of this verb; but that could change - trod might replace it completely in the not too distant future.
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