past

A preposition is a word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object. Some examples of prepositions are words like “in,” “at,” “on,” “of,” and “to.”

Past can be used in the following ways: as a preposition (followed by a noun): It’s past your bedtime. I walked past the post office. as an adverb (without a following noun): A policeman walked past.

adjective. gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it’s all past now. of, having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present; bygone: the past glories of the Incas. gone by just before the present time; just passed: during the past year.

Get past means to allow someone to pass or to get out of the way so someone can pass. Example; Please let me get past, I have no time. Passed, Sharyn is right above. It’s the past tense of pass.

English uses three principal forms of the past, the Simple Past (or preterite), the Present Perfect (or compound past), and the Past perfect, sometimes called the Pluperfect. There is also a special tense called the future perfect. All of these forms can also be used with a progressive aspect.

Would, should and could are three auxiliary verbs that can be defined as past tenses of will, shall, and can; however, you may learn more from seeing sentences using these auxiliaries than from definitions. Examples of usage follow.

2 Answers. The concept of past, present and future is known as time. The fact that verbs can be inflected to mark past, present and (in some languages) future is called tense.

Verb Forms

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• My sister is a nurse.
• I am a boy.
• She is working on her computer.
• We are waiting for them.
• It is an elephant.
• Birds are flying in the sky.
• The kettle is boiling.
• The baby is sleeping.