Preterite

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Preterite: Having gone before.

This term is not used much in English anymore, and just as well. It used to be what we now call the past tense, grammatically speaking. But that was long ago and Now my consolation Is in the stardust of a song. Where was I..

My predicament is that I get preterite and predicate mixed up. I think I understand what the word preterite means, but predicate is one of those clinkers that gets more confusing the more it is defined. I predict that one day I will give up on predicating my predicament on the preterite.

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