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Name First & Third-Person-Singular-Past-Tense Construction
Semantic function of cxn Relating a 'process' in which the subject is a participant to the time of the utterance or removing it from the reality of present time.
Usage conditions VTM-slot of sentence-type constructions with a subject of the type I, NPSG, NPmass or a clausal subject, or VTM-slot of a corresponding sentence-type fragment construction.
Slots 1
Syntactic form
was said had did told knew went thought took saw came felt found gave left wrote put began
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/ɪd/