Sentence examples for passive past from inspiring English sources

The dominance of use of the 'past tense' within the reports is unsurprising the guidance that the students follow indicates they are expected to use the 'third person passive past tense' because it is considered to be objective for scientific writing.

The later edition relies more on passive, past participles, as apparent in the change of "While a gold cloud" in line 25 to "While barred clouds".

Data collected were: patient's demographic data (age and sex from ED database) and daycare attendance, onset of new symptoms of infection starting in the four days prior to the phone interview in the child or other family members, age of siblings and their daycare attendance, passive smoking, past medical history including vaccination history.

The verb is inflected for mood (indicative, subjunctive, imperative), aspect (perfective, imperfective), voice (active, passive), tense (present, past), and person (first, second, and third, singular and plural).

There are also two nonfinite forms, an indeclinable present active participle in -ondas (ghráfondas 'writing'), and a past passive one in -ménos (kurazménos 'tired'tired

The tasks were used to teach past passive forms.

The focus of GI tasks was past passive form which was a totally new linguistic form and somewhat a more complicated one.

This was not always a passive continuation of past management.

Finally, we observe that the relative risk found here for ARR/VRQ animals is much larger than their relative scrapie risk under past passive surveillance in Great Britain.

If anything, however, the Mets regressed into their passive mood of weeks past when they fell behind, 2-0, in the first inning.

Finally, while substitution of the past participle passive form for the finite verb in the past tense is quite frequent in the Prakrits, it has become almost a rule in Apabhramsha.