What's the difference between premerit and preterit?
Premerit
Definition:
(v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
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Preterit
Definition:
(a.) Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
(a.) Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
(n.) The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
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(1) A research on the acquisition of morphemes of plural, diminutive, augmentative, gerund, imperfect, and preterite with 109 Spanish children from 3 to 6 is reported.