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| | Using Verb Tenses |
 | | In this sentence the act of discovery ("discovered") occurred in the past but after the ongoing and repeated action of reading ("had been reading"). | | | The on-going actions took place and were completed at some point well before the time of speaking or writing. | | | Even though the coroner has been carefully examining the corpse discovered in Sutherland's Gully since early this morning, we still do not know the cause of death. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/usetense.html
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| | Grammatical tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This expresses that an action was completed before some other event. | | | future-perfect-in-past tense: will be completed by some time which is in the future of some time in the past, eg., Sally went to work; by the time she should be home, the burglary would have been completed. | | | This expresses a past action in a hypothetical future. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_tense
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| | esl blue(s) Quizzes: Past Tenses |
| | A Birthday Party Asking Questions about a past event. | | | The Hallowe'en Party Responding to questions about a past event. | | | A Shorts Story Asking questions about a past event. |
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http://www.collegeem.qc.ca/cemdept/anglais/pasttenl.htm
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| | Verb Tense Consistency |
| | In the sample, will should be would, and rise should be rose. | | | This writer uses the present tense to describe the appearance of a dragonfly on a particular July morning. | | | Use present tense to state facts, to refer to perpetual or habitual actions, and to discuss your own ideas or those expressed by an author in a particular work. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_tensec.html
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| | Verbs The Past Tenses From Latin to Old French |
| | The -TUS and -SUS past participles can be found in conjugations II, III, and IV. | | | VALÚTU Many strong verbs, especially for verbs which had a perfect in -ui, joined the -utu group. | | | General reduction of strong past participles as a result of #2 and #3. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~benjamis/verbspas.html
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| | Maher Bahloul, Ph |
| | Maher Bahloul and Raja Mallek (2001), “When the Use Violates the Rules: Revisiting Reported Speech” Paper presented at the 7 | | | Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging ESL Textbooks”, Sponsored by TESOL Arabia, Abu Dhabi Chapter, British Council, Abu Dhabi, 16 December, 2004. | | | “Tenses in Journalistic Discourse: Challenging English Grammar Textbooks” presented at TESOL-Spain 2004, March 26-28, |
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http://www.bahloul.com/Doc/Curriculum/Dr.%20Maher%20Bahloul%20CV.htm
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| | Verb Tenses |
| | This tense is formed by using had with the past participle of the verb. | | | This tense is formed by using has/have been and the present participle of the verb (the verb form ending in -ing). | | | This tense is formed by using had been and the present perfect of the verb (the verb form ending in -ing). |
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http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html
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| | AP Spanish Grammar Review: Past Indicative Tenses |
| | tense is used in describing the past, expressing actions that were in progress at a certain time in the past, relating habitual, customary, or repeated actions in the past, and telling the time of the day in the past. | | | Read on to find out how to form these tenses and check out more differences between the two. | | | And depending on which tense they use, the preterit or the imperfect, their stories will be very different. |
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http://www.power-glide.com/apex_span_er/6.html
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| | periwork.com |
| | This link between past and present may express: | | | a past event within a period which is not over yet | | | The past progressive is used to say that something was going on around a particular time. |
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http://www.periwork.com/gram/pasttenses.htm
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| | Understanding by Design Exchange |
| | Identify the contexts in which to use the imperfect and the preterite. | | | Have students compare different sentences in English that contain the past tense to see if they can figure out the differences in meaning. | | | Choose correctly between the imperfect and the preterite while writing and speaking. |
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http://www.cheney268.com/UbDUnits/chs/SpanishPastTense.htm
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| | The use of the English tenses in a nutshell |
| | She would help him, if she knew he was in troubles. | | | a state or situation which has started in the past and is continuing up to now. | | | a state or situation which started in the past and is now finished. |
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http://www.geocities.com/kvancauw/use_of_the_English_tenses.htm
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| | More Subjunctive Tenses in Spanish |
| | Remember that the subjunctive is used when there is a negated or indefinite antecedent. | | | Besides the present subjunctive, there are several other subjunctive tenses which you need to know and be able to use. | | | Remember that the subjunctive is used after verbs of influence, emotion, doubt, and denial. |
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http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/PASTSUBJ.HTM
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| | haber-use |
| | See Subjunctive Page for more on the use and forms of the subjunctive. | | | See the Subjunctive Page for more information on this. | | | Consequently, the pluperfect tense cannot be used in a single clause, because you have to have at least two clauses to set up one action in the past, and then the pluperfect action which came before it: |
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http://home.minneapolis.edu/~witwerda/grammar/haber.htm
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| | English Grammar |
| | He had been thinking about his friends shortly before they called. | | | Questions are formed by placing the auxiliary before the subject. | | | The Past Continuous tense is used to express continuous, ongoing actions which took place in the past. |
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http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/durrus/153/gramch06.html
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| | Spanish Grammar: preterite vs imperfect review |
| | Generally speaking, the preterite is used for actions in the past that are seen as completed, while the imperfect tense is used for past actions that did not have a definite beginning or a definite end. | | | This is not surprising, since the difference in meaning can be traced back to the different way in which these two past tenses are used. | | | Another way to view this is that the preterite tells us specifically when an action took place, while the imperfect tells us in general when an action took place. |
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http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/pretimp4.htm
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| | Lesson 12: The Present Perfect and Past Perfect Tenses |
| | Don't try to translate the entire sentences in which these are found. | | | Just as in English, past participles are also used as adjectives. | | | Past participles are adjectives unless they are immediately preceded by a form of haber. |
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http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/deisenbe/readsp/Lesson_12_-_The_Perfect_Tenses.html
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| | The two past tenses and their usage |
| | First, in German, the auxilliary appears in the usual position of the conjugated verb (it is the second sentence elelement), while the past participle is placed at the end of the sentence. | | | Second, while the auxilliary in English is always a form of to have, in German you have to learn rules for choosing between haben and sein as the auxilliary. | | | These have equivalents in English, of course, but it is very important to understand that, while in English "I was hungry" (simple past) does not mean the same thing as "I have been hungry" (present perfect), in German there is essentially no difference in meaning between the two tenses. |
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http://camden-www.rutgers.edu/dept-pages/german/past_tenses.html
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| | Usage of Tenses |
| | To talk about actions that were pending at a point in the past and things that may have or not existed, use imperfect subjunctive. | | | To talk about habitual present actions, events or states, use present indicative. | | | Hypothetical situtaions in the past that are contrary to fact: |
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http://www.econ.jhu.edu/people/tchaidze/SPANGRAM/tenses.html
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| | BBC NEWS UK Education Any lessons from Russia? |
| | However, for the past two years Russian schools have been trialling a new approach which involves specialising in just four or five subjects, with study in the remaining subjects required at only a "basic" level. | | | In his Moscow office, the Russian Minister of Education, Vladimir Filippov, told me "there was too much rote learning in the past and there still is". | | | She told me she hoped her pupils had already mastered the "present simple, the present continuous, and the past indefinite tenses, as well as knowing their regular and irregular verbs, and adjectives and adverbs". |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3465581.stm
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| | ENGLISH PAGE - Verb Tense Tutorial |
| | I have been studying English for five years. | | | Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. | | | You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. |
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http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
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| | Past tense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The past tense is a verb tense expressing action, activity, state or being in the past. | | | Each of these may also be found in the progressive (continuous) aspect. | | | In English, there are two distinct types of past tense: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_tense
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| | Spanish past tenses: Preterit and Imperfect - Spanish Language |
| | In general terms, the preterit is used to express an action (in the past) that is completed or seen as completed, that has concrete and clear beginning and end. | | | This is a general view that can help you understand the main differences in use for these two Spanish tenses. | | | So, the English past form "I ate" could either be translated as "yo comí" (preterit) or "yo comía" (imperfect) depending on what we want to express (notice that they aren't interchangeable). |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art29963.asp
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| | Verbs: Past Tenses |
| | She knew how to write her name before she went to school. | | | When the student protesters marched into the building at noon, the administrators were leaving. | | | He had been cooking for three hours when his sister finally offered to help. |
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http://college.hmco.com/english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/verbs_pa.htm
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| | VERB TENSES |
| | (an activity which was completed before another activity in the past) | | | I had been eating for two hours before my friend arrived. | | | I have been eating a lot of vegetables lately. |
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http://staff.washington.edu/~marynell/grammar/verbtenses.html
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| | German Grammar:Verbs:Past Tenses:Perfect Tense - Wikibooks |
| | Look at the following conversation and concentrate on the distribution of Präteritum and Perfekt. | | | Note: none of the verbs from groups C-E is combined with an accusative object. | | | On the other hand, the perfect tense is used in writing too. |
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http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German_Grammar:Verbs:Past_Tenses:Perfect_Tense
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| | Spanish Imperfect and Preterit Indicative Past Tenses |
| | The imperfect indicative is used (1) to express continuous or customary action in past time and (2) to express an action in past time which was occurring when another intervened. | | | The preterit indicative is used to express definite past action, taken as a whole, with no idea of the duration of the time involved. | | | The student will notice that the second and third conjugations have the same endings. |
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http://www.spanish-kit.net/grammar/053.html
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| | Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 2000 |
| | An asterisk (*) is used to signal a word or form that is not preserved in any written documents but that can be reconstructed on the basis of other evidence. | | | Practically none of this rich inflection is preserved in Modern English, but it has left its trace in many formations in Germanic and in other languages such as Latin and Greek. | | | Indo-European is the name given for geographic reasons to the large and well-defined linguistic family that includes most of the languages of Europe, past and present, as well as those found in a vast area extending across Iran and Afghanistan to the northern half of the Indian subcontinent. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/61/8.html
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| | ENGLISH PAGE - Simple Past |
| | The Simple Past can also be used to describe a habit which stopped in the past. | | | Sometimes the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind. | | | I paid her a dollar, when she answered my question. |
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http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html
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| | past tenses |
| | The Past Simple is used to express that an action, state or situation started and finished in the past. | | | The past perfect expresses which of two actions ocurred | | | to mark that a (past) action lasted longer than a shorter action |
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http://acacia.cnice.mecd.es/~agip0002/auro/pasts.html
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| | Simple Past and Past Progressive 1 |
| | Simple Past and Past Progressive 1, by Dennis Oliver | | | While I __________ to work, I saw an accident. |
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http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/past1.html
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| | Past tenses |
| | To express an action in the past that took place before another action in the past (it is the "past of the past"): | | | Il est entré (with the imperfect, you do not know when the action ended, whereas with the passé composé, it is made quite clear) | | | Attention: When an action in the past follows another action in the past, use the conditional, to express the future in the past: |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/helenev/description/grammar/Ptenses.html
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| | 330 Grammar: Forming the Simple Past Tense (Regular Verbs) |
| | This page will explain the rules for forming the tense with regular verbs. | | | Its form is the same with all subjects. | | | With most verbs, the simple past is created simply by adding -ED. |
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http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/pasted.htm
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| | Irregular past tenses ending in ''t'' Antimoon Forum |
| | I use the "t" endings all the time, in writing and in speech. | | | But seriously, do you think English would have gone anywhere without the influx of all that French? | | | But I would probably say "The house burned fiercely for hours" but "The house was burnt to the ground" so it maybe a matter of tense. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/2004/5227.htm
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| | The British in Florida. The Lounge |
| | The British forms are recognizable by Americans and occasionally found in American texts, though their usage may be considered an affectation. | | | Also, the American participle gotten is never used in British English, which uses got (as do some Americans). | | | As with the "tre" words, these are occasionally found in American texts. |
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http://www.sunnybrits.com/british/lounge/language.htm
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| | Quia - Using Past and Past Perfect Tenses in Complex Sentences |
| | You will also be given a subordinator with which to combine the clauses. | | | In this activity, you will see pairs of sentence stems (a subject and its predicate phrase). | | | To learn how to make your own, just like this, click here. |
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http://www.quia.com/tq/289756.html
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| | CNN.com - New guide for scientific explorers - Dec 7, 2004 |
| | But there is plenty to stimulate the mind as well as the senses, such as learning the endangered native American language of Choctaw, which has separate past tenses for things you know for certain to be true and for things you are merely repeating. | | | If that doesn't faze you, try deciphering the Voynich manuscript -- "an apparently medieval text written in an unknown script in a language" that has "baffled cryptologists for decades." Or perhaps earn $100,000 by discovering a 10 million-digit prime number. | | | You can do this by taking a trip on SpaceShipOne -- the world's first commercial rocket plane, which is scheduled to begin flights into space in 2008. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/12/02/next.100things/index.html
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| | Mirabilis.ca: miscellaneous Archives |
| | The National Post article doesn't seem to be on the web, but there's more about the Belfast Children's Vacation Project at BelfastKids.ca, and in this Neutral Ground page at the CBC site. | | | The two boys are past participants of the Belfast Children's Vacation project, a month-long retreat organized by a group in St John, New Brunswick. | | | It's a true story, a small example of the difference one Canadian project has made on the deeply divided lives of Catholics and Protestants in Belfasat. |
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http://www.mirabilis.ca/archives/cat_miscellaneous.html
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| | French Past Tenses - Passé composé vs Imparfait |
| | Note: There is a third tense, le passé simple, which technically translates to the English simple past tense, but is now used primarily in writing, in place of the passé composé - learn more. | | | can be very tricky, because English has several tenses which either do not exist in or do not translate literally into French - and vice versa. | | | During the first year of French study, every student becomes aware of the troublesome relationship between the two main past tenses. |
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http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa060799.htm
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| | Test Your English - past and perfect tenses |
| | Test Your English - past and perfect tenses | | | Test your English - past and perfect tenses | | | Select what you think are the correct answers below, |
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http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen/testspastaperf1.html
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| | Present Perfect and Past Simple tenses |
| | Present Continuous Tense when to use; how to form; ing forms of the verbs; English action and state verbs; the difference between the Present Continuous and the Present Simple tenses; test. | | | We use the Present Perfect tense with time references that refer to the time up to now. | | | Grammar reference and online exercises for Elementary level. |
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http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1E.html
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| | ESL free exercises answers English past tenses simple continuous |
| | The sergeant (scratch) his head and said he (wonder) what the piano students (think) of Bert's trombone. | | | ESL free exercises answers English past tenses simple continuous | | | Give the correct form of the words in brackets. |
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http://www.englishforjapanese.com/exercises/verb%20forms/14%20past%20tense%20review.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: Past Tenses |
| | Look for books like Past Tenses by subject: | | | We will notify you within 2-3 weeks if we have trouble obtaining this title. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/1854890328
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| | Afrikaans in Christchurch |
| | A particular feature is its use of the double negative. | | | nie) The base grammar structure is simple - there are only three tenses ? |
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http://www.aquinin.com/afrikaans/thelanguage
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| | Cognitive Science Bibliography |
| | Pollock, J. Cognitive carpentry: A blueprint for how to build a person. | | | A model of learning the past tense without feedback. | | | Pinker, S., and Prince, A. On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition. |
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http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Bibliographies/cogsci.bib.html
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