PRETERITE

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 169 words | Copyright

PRETERITE, also AmE preterit. A traditional term for the simple PAST tense of the verb (such as climbed in They climbed the hill yesterday) and for a verb in this tense.

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