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Within Vinony's link graph, past tense is referenced by 503 other articles, and connects out to narration, stylistic device and uses of English verb forms.
Vinony files it under Grammatical tenses and Past.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- grammeme
- Subclass of
- inflected form
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- short name
- PST
- has characteristic
- past
- exact match
- www.lexinfo.net/ontology/3.0/lexinfo#past
- equivalent class
- purl.org/linguistics/gold/PastTense
- topic has template
- Template:past tense of
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Encyclopedic overview
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The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English verbs sang, went and washed. Most languages have a past tense, with some having several types in order to indicate how far back the action took place. Some languages have a compound past tense which uses auxiliary verbs as well as an imperfect tense which expresses continuous or repetitive events or actions. Some languages inflect the verb, which changes the ending to indicate the past tense, while non-inflected languages may use other words meaning, for example, "yesterday" or "last week" to indicate that something took place in the past.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “past tense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.