Sentence examples for regular past from inspiring English sources

A regular past tense, not a subjunctive, is wanted here: "was elected".

This is followed by mastery of the irregular past tense ("I made," "I had"), possessives (my, mine, his), articles (a, an, the), and the regular past tense ("I walked," "he stopped").

Nets may be good at making associations and matching patterns, but they have fundamental limitations in mastering general rules such as the formation of the regular past tense.

In speech, early L2 learners of English have been observed to supply forms of copula be more frequently than auxiliary be, and both more frequently than affixal regular past –ed and 3rd person singular present tense –s in contexts where morphological marking is required for native speakers.

(Children frequently find themselves in this position, for example, they invariably go through a phase in which they overgeneralize regular past tense verb endings to irregular verbs; their grammars generate the incorrect *I breaked it as well as the correct I broke it).

The study used 240 words divided into 3 test conditions (80 words each): regular past tense (played), words with onset-embedded stem (claim), and simple words (shape) (see also Supplementary Table 1).

Sequence-of-tense rules demand a regular past-tense verb: "a sales agent asked whether the kiss was needed".

Guided by the second of these two accounts, the current study was designed to identify more specific aspects of phonological deficit that might be associated with the pattern of irregular > regular past-tense production.

We mention to this end that studies of the boundary layer flows of a Newtonian (or regular) fluid past a permeable static or moving flat plate have been done by Merkin [50], Weidman et al. [51], Ishak et al. [52], Zheng et al. [53] and Zhu et al. [54, 55], while Bachok et al. [32] have considered the boundary layers over a permeable moving surface in a nanofluid.

[21, with a regular doctor, past experience of family doctor in Australia].

There are usually regulars from past tours, but some have changed.