单词 | preterite |
例句 | The present tense too is far more pleasant and less monotonous than the preterite. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z And what are we preterite souls left to do but open our browsers each morning with that sickly tinge of disaster anticipation we've become habituated to since Sept. The market is now more powerful than the state 2011-08-10T15:59:00Z In the case of certain Greek verbs, the preterite in form is invariably present in signification. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The boys of the different schools vie with each other in verses; or dispute; or dispute on the principles of grammar, or the rules of preterites and supines.” Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London 2011-06-30T02:00:33.287Z Its inflections are -as present, -is preterite, -os future, -us conditional, -u imperative and subjunctive, -i infinitive, together with the following participles:— Active. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Such are the -ss- preterite and the fusion of simple prepositions with pronominal elements, e.g. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Yet, such is the similarity between Gothic and Anglo-Saxon that we cannot doubt their preterites having been formed on the same last. Lectures on The Science of Language Their verbs have four moods, the indicative, optative, imperative, and infinitive, and five tenses, one present, three preterites, and one future. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations Find and blind, I may remark, are pronounced to rhyme with the preterite of grin. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) No Southern writer would retain, I think, the i in the preterite. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century This system is eked out with the verbal prefix ro, which among other functions changes a preterite into a perfect or a present into a perfect. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" If there be any truth in inductive reasoning, there must have been an original Anglo-Saxon preterite,215 Singular. Lectures on The Science of Language By changing the termination of the infinitive into a, we have the indicative present, into bi the first preterite, into buna the second preterite, into kuba the third preterite, and into pa the future. The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations He uses the pluperfect apparently as an equivalent of the preterite, and begins sentences with unde where unde has no meaning at all. Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes The Northumbrian dialect does not preserve any separate form for the preterite plural, and this distinction is not always observed in the present poems. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century The word is no participle at all; but a simple preterite. A Handbook of the English Language The d of the preterite, therefore, which changes I love into I loved is originally the auxiliary verb to do, and I loved is the same as I love did, or I did love. Lectures on The Science of Language The exception alluded to may be a method of forming the preterite tense, which seems to be shared by a great number of widely-spread Bantu languages. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" May I venture to suggest a pun on the preterite of the verb to speak? Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. But with the preterite tense the simple impersonal form is more usual. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature What is the probable origin of the -d in such preterites as call-ed. A Handbook of the English Language It might be asked, however, very properly, how did itself, or the Anglo-Saxon dide, was formed, and how it received the meaning of a preterite. Lectures on The Science of Language The weak verbs form their preterite by the addition of the syllable -te, and their past participle by means of a t-suffix. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition Q. Is there a rigid rule with regard to the use of the preterite tense? The Patient Observer And His Friends The grammatical changes were few, and, except for a diminishing use of pronominal suffixes, those, like the new preterite of gwîl, to do, were chiefly false analogies, or else imitations of English. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The preterite of edēru, to be in misery, has not been found. The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform And thirdly, the verbs have been simplified in conjugation, weak preterites being often substituted for strong ones, and differential terminations largely lost. Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain To this class belong the verbs which originally had reduplicated preterites. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition However, if he wrote the passage when he was thirty, that would justify the past tense, which perhaps, too, we have a right to construe have been, for that verb has no perfect preterite. Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Gally is used, chiefly in the present and preterite, for “can” and “could,” but also for “may” and “might.” A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Indeed, the anomalies in English preterites are perplexing. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell "Scrope" and "lept," as preterites of "scrape" and "leap," are correctly formed on the analogy of "broke" and "crept," but are not used in polite society. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature The present and past participle have the same stem-vowel; and the preterite singular and plural have ie. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition The verb to bet forms its preterite regularly, as do wet, wed, knit, quit and others that are commonly misconjugated. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Illustrate by an original sentence —— preterite and —— past participle of the following verbs. Practical Exercises in English Yes, 'tis true, But in no sadly literal sense, With elders and coevals too, Whose verb admits no preterite tense. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The verb to be has the following indicative and subjunctive forms in the present and preterite:— IND. Composition-Rhetoric The former formed their preterite in -ta, and the latter in -ita; and similarly in the inflected form of the past participle. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition "If we analize a conjunctive preterite, the rule will not appear to hold." The Grammar of English Grammars Bishop Latimer used the preterite shew, which Mr. Bartlett, in his "Dictionary of Americanisms," pronounces to be the shibboleth of Bostonians. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Find the blind, I may remark, are prounced to rhyme with the preterite of grin. Underwoods English has only two simple tenses, the present and the preterite: I love, I loved. Composition-Rhetoric Those having a mutated vowel in the present have the corresponding unmutated vowel in the preterite. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition "The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came." The Grammar of English Grammars Show, like blow, crow, grow, seems formerly to have had what is called a strong preterite. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 This is used for the preterite of the verb to be, in almost all the persons, as I war, he war, we war, &c. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire The formation of the preterite tense, and the consequent division of verbs into strong and weak, will be discussed later. Composition-Rhetoric The i which would have caused umlaut in the preterite disappeared in the prehistoric period of the language. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition "But," said Oldbuck, "I am shocked to hear you talk of him in the preterite tense." The Antiquary — Volume 02 Indeed, we did not ourselves tarry long among the shades, for we were young, and youth has little use for the preterite; its verbs are wont to have but two tenses. The Book-Bills of Narcissus An Account Rendered by Richard Le Gallienne Vel, for fell, the preterite of to fall, is precisely the sound given to the same word at the present time in Somersetshire. The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire All verbs which form the preterite without the addition of an ending are strong verbs. Composition-Rhetoric These have strong preterites with a present meaning, from which new weak preterites have been formed. A Middle High German Primer Third Edition You are right, most venerable Lord and Father," replied the incorrigible Euphuist; "the preterite, as grammarians have it, concerns frail mortality less than the future mood, and indeed our cogitations respect chiefly the present. The Monastery And in the preterite of the same verb, mattara, he has taken it away: mattaratit, he has taken it away from thee. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 There are seven conjugations of strong verbs, distinguished mainly by the characteristic vowels of their preterites. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary CAUTION.—Do not confuse the preterite with the past participle. Composition-Rhetoric It seems to me that the preterite "bát" means here "the night has passed," and rendering "man" by the interrogative, I would translate: "O! who shall say to the sad, the separated, night is over?" The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 Others understand, The moon shall be split on the Last Day, the preterite for the future in prophetic style. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 The preterite of the German dialect is formed by adding ium to the imperative, which is always the root of the verb. Carmen These have old strong preterites for their presents, from which new weak preterites are formed. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary The historical present is much used, often alternating abruptly with the preterite. Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary |
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