preterition
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The conjunctive is both in the present and preterites, lyke the optatyve.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles
These have strong preterites with a present meaning, from which new weak preterites have been formed.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph
Some persons used the strong preterites, and some the weak,—some said snew, thew, sew, and some snowed, thawed, sowed.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various
Indeed, the anomalies in English preterites are perplexing.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell
Page 987 The subjunctive present and thre preterites is lyke the optative, puttyng before the verbe, ueu, or come, etc.
From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Du Wés, Giles
