Preterite used in a sentence

Preterite in a sentence as a noun

The author of the article is suggesting that we use these weird ablaut/umlaut morphs in place of the preterite.

Given that the past participle of "write" is "written" and the preterite is "wrote", the forms of "copywrite" should be "copywrote" and "copywritten", not "copywrited.

" One particular example was when I came to really understand the distinction between the preterite and imperfect in Spanish; another came when I got to grips with Latin's ablative case.