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How to pronounce past tense in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms past
Type of tense
Has types preterit, preterite

Examples of past tense

past tense
The comedian talks about his father in the past tense, apparently unconsciously.
From the theargus.co.uk
Find newspaper examples of paragraphs written in present, past and future tense.
From the democratandchronicle.com
The verb tense in the Chronology roamed back and forth between present and past.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Never-theless, it seems right to speak of incandescent bulbs in the past tense.
From the economist.com
After the Buckeyes'NCAA loss, he spoke of his college career in the past tense.
From the usatoday.com
Let the past tense in that sentence stand as an indication of how it all ended.
From the movies.nytimes.com
The second entry is in the present tense, while the others are in the past tense.
From the en.wikipedia.org
What art does, or did this year, is review those thorny issues in the past tense.
From the time.com
The near past tense is used for events that have happened in the past 18 hours.
From the en.wikipedia.org