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Example sentences for: tense
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Once it became obvious that the case was being lost, the defendant's lawyer blamed the whole flap on a printer's error, maintaining that his client's original ad copy depicted Gargantua speaking in the future tense of the verb: “Un de ces jours, on jumbo frankfurtera dans les coins” [`One of these days, folks around here will be eating big hot dogs.
In Honolulu, the student editor of the University of Hawaii's campus newspaper, a native English-speaker, was unable to understand a professor's telephoned complaint about the paper's use of band as the past tense of to ban.
There are telltale characteristics, widely if not universally present: the replacement of an initial "th" with a "d" sound ("dis," "dem") and of a medial or final "th" by an "f" or other consonant sound ("with" becomes "wif," "brother" becomes "bruvah"); a reduction of consonant clusters in general (so that "first" becomes "firs" and "hand" becomes "han"); the replacement of a final "r" sound with a vowel sound ("summah" for "summer" and "mo" for "more"); the prevalence of so-called plosive consonants (making a word such as "bill" sound more like "beel"); the placement of stress on a first, rather than a second, syllable ("DEE-troit"); the disappearance of the final "s" from third-person singular verbs ("what go 'round, come 'round"); the dropping of the copula ("I here," "the coffee cold") and of certain tense inflections altogether.
We watch him having the time of his life, but there's no question of his ever fitting in with Dickie, his willowy girlfriend Marge (Gwyneth Paltrow), or even their fat, to-the-manner-born pal Freddie Miles (a hilarious Philip Seymour Hoffman)--he's too tense, too hungry, too incomplete.
She understood the meaning of ban; she had apparently heard its inflected past tense form; but the infinitive and the present tense forms were unknown to her.