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tense
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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tense2 drawn tight XVII; highly strung XIX. — L.
tensus, pp. of
tendere stretch, TEND2.
So
tensile ductile XVII; pert. to tension XIX. — medL.
tension XVI. — F. or L. Hence
tensor (
-OR1) (anat.) muscle that tightens some part XVIII; (math.) in quaternions XIX.
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Past tense. (Present Tense magazine opposes the American Jewish Organizations)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 3/12/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...its January/February issue, Present Tense proclaims in bold red type, A growing...Spero, a contributing editor of Present Tense, goes on to suggest that by projecting...intifada. What is remarkable is that Present Tense is published by one of the organizations...
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Tense exchanges.(verbs)
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; Tense exchanges occur when the past and present tenses of the same verb lock on...present tense is given first. Tense exchanges can be categorized according to where the tenses appear in the words. TENSE BEGINNINGS BINDER--BOUNDER...
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The Present Tense in Modern Hindi Fiction
Magazine article from: Internationales Asien Forum. International Quarterly for Asian Studies; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...explicit. The use of tenses in the context of what...Damsteegt, "The Present Tense and Internal Focalization...featuring the present tense, has been widely used...use of past and present tenses begun in the preceding...affinity with the present tense. This technique had...
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About time: Theorizing adaptation, temporality, and tense
Magazine article from: Literature/Film Quarterly; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; The novel has three tenses [past, present, future...only one [the present tense]. From this follows...film cannot use any tense other than the present...events in a range of tenses. Film is thus often...an "eternal present tense." Yet, as Bluestone...
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Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: Evidence from event-related potentials
Magazine article from: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; 6/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...On learning the past tenses of English verbs...comprehension of the English past tense has been a major endeavor...than are irregular past tenses-those that have more...present- and past-tense forms. Dual-system...argue that regular past tenses are produced by affixation...
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Tense in literary Old Babylonian.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...literature devoted to Old Babylonian (henceforth OB) tense mainly refers to letters and laws. A comprehensive...and Streck 1999. Not a single work deals with Mari OB tense, and for tense in literary OB (henceforth LOB), we have Wilcke 1977...
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Imaging the past: Neural activation in frontal and temporal regions during regular and irregular past-tense processing
Magazine article from: Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience; 9/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...for irregular past tenses. Similar previous...theory of the past tense (Pinker &...coda of the present tense (/b/ and /k...forming irregular past tenses such as took, sat...of irregular past tenses such as hit, said...as regular past-tense endings (e.g...
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A Further Study of Present Tense Narration: The Absentee Narratee and Four-Wall Present Tense in Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace
Magazine article from: Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT; 10/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...novel is offered in simultaneous present tense narration, Bascombe narrating the events...challenge of reading simultaneous present tense narration is in locating the narratee...retrospective narration, historical present tense narration, and simultaneous present tense...
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Analogical effects in regular past tense production in Dutch.
Magazine article from: Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...what extent the production of regular past tense forms in Dutch is affected by analogical...and had to indicate which of the past tense allomorphs, te or de, was appropriate...participants created more nonstandard past tense forms, produced more inconsistency errors...
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Why now, why then?: present-tense narration in contemporary British and commonwealth novels.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Journal of Narrative Theory; 6/22/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...novels narrated basically in the present tense, and examples abound when we expand our...considerably wide use of the narrative present tense is not a unique phenomenon in these two...Casparis, the extensive use of present-tense narration in the novels in English saw...
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TENSE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...marking. There is also no tense choice for the imperative...harder’). Tense in English In terms of...English has only two tenses, the present or non...x2018;sequence of tenses’ rule in reported...restates the present tense of the original utterance...
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tense
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
tense 1 / tens / • adj. (esp. of a...stretched tight or rigid: she tried to relax her tense muscles. ∎ (of a person...nervousness, anxiety, or stimulation: he was tense with excitement. ∎ ...
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VERB
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...for example walk , used for the PRESENT tense with all persons (except third-person...The -s form walks , used for the present tense with third-person singular subjects...walking . (4) The -ed form, for both PAST tense and the past or -ed participle, walked...
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Neugeboren, Jay
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...best novel prize, 1981; Smilen-Present Tense award, 1982; PEN Syndicated Fiction prize...Monkeys and Cowboys," in Present Tense (New York), Summer1976. "A Worthy...November 1978. "Kehilla," in Present Tense (New York), Winter 1978. "Star of...
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DIRECT AND INDIRECT SPEECH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...backshifted’ in tense to align them with the time...backshift relationship of verb tenses in the reporting and reported...is known as the sequence of tenses . Backshift, however, is optional...indirect speech in shifting tenses and other references, but there...
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