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PAST TENSE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
Synonyms:
past; past tense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("past tense" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "past tense"):
preterit; preterite (a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense)
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