| 单词 | past tense |
| 释义 | past tense (once / 13922 pages) n In grammar, the past tense is the verb form you use to talk about things that happened in the past. When you say, "I joined the circus," the verb "joined" is in the past tense. When people write or speak using the past tense, they're describing something that happened earlier, whether it was yesterday or ten years ago. If you say, "My favorite food is pizza," the verb "is" is present tense, but if you say, "When I was five, my favorite food was pizza," the verb "was" is past tense. The noun tense, which means "verb form that indicates time of action," comes from the Old French root tens, or "time." WORD FAMILYpast tense: past tenses USAGE EXAMPLESSure, it bears mentioning that saying “drug” as the past tense of “drag” is a rural colloquialism and not a bigly indicator of intelligence. Salon(Nov 05, 2016) Franklin’s use of the past tense here marks another revision to Cooke’s lyrics: Cooke consistently sings “a change is gonna come.” Slate(Oct 28, 2016) People always spoke of their city in past tense, never in present or future tense. Los Angeles Times(Oct 28, 2016) n a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Syn|Hypo|Hyper past preterit, preterite a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time |
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