Word: preterit
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...heaps of meaning, while the dreaded trennbare, or separable, verbs divide into pieces -- a kind of linguistic mitosis that leaves clumps of information floating around the sentence. Finding that truffle among words, a truly regular verb that pulls no tricks in the past perfect tense and behaves in the preterit as a preterit should, is a moment of sublime pleasure -- provided that one can remember how regular verbs are conjugated...
From my hazy memory of school, my little old knotty skull was so busy entertaining cube roots of things and the preterit of foreign languages and that old "whan that Aprile" business from Chaucer that I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't really have time to lend my learned opinions to Mr. Roosevelt's new brain trust. For one thing, I didn't have any opinions. Robert Ruark, New York World Telegram and Sun, November...
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