preterits in English
noun
1
a simple past tense or form.
Both of them have a raft of irregular preterites and past participles, suggesting long standing confusion.
adjective
1
expressing a past action or state.
But what we do in English is shift the subordinate clause verb into preterite inflection (had blue eyes instead of has blue eyes) as if to respect the choice of tense in the main clause.
noun
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