CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PREOCCUPY
PRESENT
Present
I preoccupy
you preoccupy
he/she/it preoccupies
we preoccupy
you preoccupy
they preoccupy
Present continuous
I am preoccupying
you are preoccupying
he/she/it is preoccupying
we are preoccupying
you are preoccupying
they are preoccupying
Present perfect
I have preoccupied
you have preoccupied
he/she/it has preoccupied
we have preoccupied
you have preoccupied
they have preoccupied
Present perfect continuous
I have been preoccupying
you have been preoccupying
he/she/it has been preoccupying
we have been preoccupying
you have been preoccupying
they have been preoccupying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I preoccupied
you preoccupied
he/she/it preoccupied
we preoccupied
you preoccupied
they preoccupied
Past continuous
I was preoccupying
you were preoccupying
he/she/it was preoccupying
we were preoccupying
you were preoccupying
they were preoccupying
Past perfect
I had preoccupied
you had preoccupied
he/she/it had preoccupied
we had preoccupied
you had preoccupied
they had preoccupied
Past perfect continuous
I had been preoccupying
you had been preoccupying
he/she/it had been preoccupying
we had been preoccupying
you had been preoccupying
they had been preoccupying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will preoccupy
you will preoccupy
he/she/it will preoccupy
we will preoccupy
you will preoccupy
they will preoccupy
Future continuous
I will be preoccupying
you will be preoccupying
he/she/it will be preoccupying
we will be preoccupying
you will be preoccupying
they will be preoccupying
Future perfect
I will have preoccupied
you will have preoccupied
he/she/it will have preoccupied
we will have preoccupied
you will have preoccupied
they will have preoccupied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been preoccupying
you will have been preoccupying
he/she/it will have been preoccupying
we will have been preoccupying
you will have been preoccupying
they will have been preoccupying
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would preoccupy
you would preoccupy
he/she/it would preoccupy
we would preoccupy
you would preoccupy
they would preoccupy
Conditional continuous
I would be preoccupying
you would be preoccupying
he/she/it would be preoccupying
we would be preoccupying
you would be preoccupying
they would be preoccupying
Conditional perfect
I would have preoccupy
you would have preoccupy
he/she/it would have preoccupy
we would have preoccupy
you would have preoccupy
they would have preoccupy
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been preoccupying
you would have been preoccupying
he/she/it would have been preoccupying
we would have been preoccupying
you would have been preoccupying
they would have been preoccupying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you preoccupy
we let´s preoccupy
you preoccupy
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
preoccupied
Present Participle
preoccupying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREOCCUPY»
Discover the use of
preoccupy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
preoccupy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Let's illustrate the intuition with the quantifier scope ambiguity in (1): ( 1 ) Many
problems preoccupy every politician. We want the grammar to yield the following
semantic information: 1. There are two generalised quantifiers: many problems, ...
Nicholas Asher, Alex Lascarides,
2003
2
Pathways to Literacy Excellence: 12+ years. Level C
... persuade, receive, conceive, perceive, deceive, predict, explain, persuade,
accuse, accompany accuse, accompany accuse, accompany accuse,
accompany accuse, accompany, preoccupy , preoccupy , preoccupy , preoccupy
, preoccupy, ...
But the themes that preoccupy them - injustice, annihilation, mercy, and the
power of the inanimate - also preoccupy many of the most reflective Western
characters in the novel, and they function as equals in the articulation and
advancement ...
4
Secrets of Love, Marriage, Sex, Genius, Success, and ...
Do not preoccupy yourself with people, so as not to see your faults that you
cannot repair, as you will find merits you cannot achieve. Do not preoccupy
yourself with people, so as not to feel sad if you bear good feelings toward them
or suffer ...
5
Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
MM tnat preoccupy M , $r Aunt Alexandra comes * confronted with all sgr aral,
proper order of soe: .ve with them, Scout finds mysterious prescripts jas tt; none of
which seem to I her >lligiblei "Somewhere I had received the i is were people
who ...
occupy,. preoccupy. occupy verb, means, among many other things, to keep busy
and active: Many police officers find themselves increasingly occupied with
routine paperwork. ... occurrence – old preoccupy verb, means to take up
someone's.
Graham Pointon, Stewart Clark,
2014
7
Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
preoccupy v. (preoccupies, preoccupying, preoccupied) fill the mind of someone
completely: she was preoccupied with paying the bills. preordained adj. decided
or determined beforehand. prep n. Brit. informal (especially in a private school) ...
Oxford Dictionaries,, Maurice Waite,
2012
8
The Little Book of Letting Go: A Revolutionary 30-Day ...
We also believe we can gauge how severe other people's problems truly are, yet
what might be a minor problem to one person can preoccupy another. There are
two neighborhood cats, born and raised in the wild, who have adopted us.
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
verb the issues which currently preoccupy environmentalists: engross, concern,
absorb, dominate, take up someone's whole attention, take up all of someone's
time, distract, obsess, occupy, grip, enthral, consume, haunt, prey on someone's ...
10
Early Islamic Mysticism: Sufi, Qurʼan, Miraj, Poetic and ...
... as though it were my last and I were praying the prayer of farewell. I made
myself so independent of creatures, so cut off, that when day broke, for fear that
creatures would preoccupy me, I prayed, 'O Lord, so preoccupy me with yourself
...
Michael Anthony Sells,
1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREOCCUPY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
preoccupy is used in the context of the following news items.
Peterborough soldiers protecting NATO mentors on Afghan soil
The 22-year-old from Whittlesey said: “From what I have been told compared to previous tours you have to preoccupy yourself a lot on this one ... «Peterborough Telegraph, Jul 15»
UN Document Platform For Action And Its Recent 20 Years …
Thus according to the document, women suffer from poverty due to the lack of economic resources of their own because they preoccupy ... «CounterCurrents.org, Jul 15»
Obsession With Oil
Some persons had feared that if care were not taken, issues of the petroleum industry would preoccupy this administration of PMB. For along ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Flora MacDonald, former Conservative cabinet minister, dies at 89
Canada's role in the world continued to preoccupy MacDonald even after she departed politics in 1988, when she directed her interest in ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 15»
'You've been fleeced': Congress grills Kerry, Obama officials on Iran …
The two new challenges that preoccupy both the United States and Saudi Arabia today are, first of all, Iran and its malign activities in the region ... «TV Newsroom, Jul 15»
Kofi Akpabli: The culture question never goes away
So here we are, in a country that believes all its problems are hard-core economics, and therefore, we preoccupy ourselves with monitoring ... «Graphic Online, Jul 15»
Restoring Prophetic Distinction to the Last Days Church
Let us preoccupy ourselves with the glory of God. Let us pray the glories of what Ephesians 1:16-23 and 3:14-21 promise us so that we may be ... «Charisma News, Jul 15»
Hear The Wing Sing & Pinball 1973 by Haruki Murakami; trans. Ted …
Novella-sized, they incorporate the themes that preoccupy Murakami to the present day, and bear much of the same style, but they are written ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
Review: 'Samba,' About the Travails of an Illegal Immigrant in France
... Olivier Nakache deliver a mostly buoyant take on the immigration travails that preoccupy France today (and more and more of its movies). «New York Times, Jul 15»
That time you were distracted until the dog did this
I think about work or about the petty obligations that preoccupy most of us on most of our days. When that happens I pay no attention to the ... «azcentral.com, Jul 15»