PAST
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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PAST. A term for a
TENSE of the
VERB concerned with events, actions, and states that no longer occur. The
simple past (or
PRETERITE) is regularly formed with
-ed (
walked). The complex past forms are: the
past continuous (or
past progressive) which combines a past form of auxiliary
be with the
-ing participle (
was walking); the
past perfect (
or pluperfect), which combines auxiliary
had with the
-ed participle (
had walked); the
past perfect continuous, which combines these two (
had been walking). Compare
FUTURE,
PRESENT.
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