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How to use preterit in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word preterit? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It is hard to determine to what extent the thematic formation supplied a real pluperfect to the strong preterit.
While listening to her teacher ramble about the preterit tense, Margaret felt a sharp pain at her side.
I might not know how to conjugate verbs in the preterit, but I knew a double negative when I heard one or when a poem had way too much detail.
Finite verbal clauses are those that are formed around a verb in the present or preterit form.
Examples from Classical Literature
The present tense of each of them is in origin a preterit, in function a present.
Our verbs are observed by Dr. Wallis to be irregular only in the formation of the preterit, and its participle.
Its preterit is tonda, its gerund in Do is tonde, and its negative root is tomazu.
In this Latinism the preterit denotes that a thing or condition that once existed no longer exists.
The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.
Its preterit is saiguitta and its gerund in Do is saiguitte.
In life, as in literature, it was always the preterit that enthralled him.
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