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General-Past-Tense Construction (2nd person singular and all plurals)

Name General-Past-Tense Construction (2nd person singular and all plurals)
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 you or a plural-NP subject of a corresponing sentence-type fragment construction.
Slots 1
Syntactic form
were did had got said found went saw thought etc.
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