CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RETROACT
PRESENT
Present
I retroact
you retroact
he/she/it retroacts
we retroact
you retroact
they retroact
Present continuous
I am retroacting
you are retroacting
he/she/it is retroacting
we are retroacting
you are retroacting
they are retroacting
Present perfect
I have retroacted
you have retroacted
he/she/it has retroacted
we have retroacted
you have retroacted
they have retroacted
Present perfect continuous
I have been retroacting
you have been retroacting
he/she/it has been retroacting
we have been retroacting
you have been retroacting
they have been retroacting
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 retroacted
you retroacted
he/she/it retroacted
we retroacted
you retroacted
they retroacted
Past continuous
I was retroacting
you were retroacting
he/she/it was retroacting
we were retroacting
you were retroacting
they were retroacting
Past perfect
I had retroacted
you had retroacted
he/she/it had retroacted
we had retroacted
you had retroacted
they had retroacted
Past perfect continuous
I had been retroacting
you had been retroacting
he/she/it had been retroacting
we had been retroacting
you had been retroacting
they had been retroacting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will retroact
you will retroact
he/she/it will retroact
we will retroact
you will retroact
they will retroact
Future continuous
I will be retroacting
you will be retroacting
he/she/it will be retroacting
we will be retroacting
you will be retroacting
they will be retroacting
Future perfect
I will have retroacted
you will have retroacted
he/she/it will have retroacted
we will have retroacted
you will have retroacted
they will have retroacted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been retroacting
you will have been retroacting
he/she/it will have been retroacting
we will have been retroacting
you will have been retroacting
they will have been retroacting
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would retroact
you would retroact
he/she/it would retroact
we would retroact
you would retroact
they would retroact
Conditional continuous
I would be retroacting
you would be retroacting
he/she/it would be retroacting
we would be retroacting
you would be retroacting
they would be retroacting
Conditional perfect
I would have retroact
you would have retroact
he/she/it would have retroact
we would have retroact
you would have retroact
they would have retroact
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been retroacting
you would have been retroacting
he/she/it would have been retroacting
we would have been retroacting
you would have been retroacting
they would have been retroacting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you retroact
we let´s retroact
you retroact
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
retroacted
Present Participle
retroacting
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 «RETROACT»
Discover the use of
retroact in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
retroact and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court ...
The language of that act is no more indicative of a design to give it a retroactive
effect than is that of the original act of 1844 ; and if the act of 1844 be construed
not to retroact, the same construction, for reasons at least as good, must be given
...
Rhode Island. Supreme Court, Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee, 1862
2
Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court ...
To cure an existing evil, the act was designed to affect the rights of the towns to
tax persons having a double residence; and can in no proper sense be said to
retroact, because it looks to past events or facts to ascertain the place of future ...
3
Measuring Sustainable Development Integrated Economic, ...
This may be an important source of demand for ecological sustainability policy
and may retroact on the economy. To the extent that this occurs, impacts on the
social system are accounted for in the environmental/economic interaction circuit
...
4
The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland ...: A.D. ...
... ígesta tè'pibz retroact? OCTAo q Illustr? p'nceps in cordiales fauores Ses dños
spi'iales 'at têpales cePasq, paa que sup'mo díio n'fo regj in psio '1: fuio ï ho têpe
turbate puc? aflistebàt recipiet FINALIT' q oiïies difl'êciones lites *l: discordia q' ...
Scotland, Thomas Thomson, Cosmo Innes, 1814
5
X-Ray Lasers 2008: Proceedings of the 11th International ...
levels) consequently they will be rapidly depleted if the lower lasing level is
depleted and will strongly retroact on it. The upper lasing level is populated for
half by the ground level and just less than half by a more excited level 3d94f (3/2,
5/2) ...
Ciaran L. S. Lewis, Dave Riley, 2009
6
Integrative Physiology in the Proteomics and Post-Genomics Age
Any rise of h will tend to retroact negatively and reduce the inflow (negative
feedback), or to anteact positively and increase the outflow (positive feed-forward
). Reciprocally, any drop of h will retroact negatively and increase the inflow or
will ...
7
The Rhode Island State Constitution
“To meet the well-settled definition of [an ex post facto] law, a statute must not
only retroact, but must retroact, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which
was not a crime before its passage.” State v. Paul, 5 R.I. 185, 190 (1858). The
ban on ...
Patrick T. Conley, Robert J. Flanders, 2011
Neal Asher. – Only seconds passed aboard Heliotrope, then came that twisting
sensation. retroact ends – retroact ends–
9
A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon ...
But the legislative action cannot be made to retroact upon past controversies, and
to reverse decisions which the courts, in the exercise of their undoubted authority,
have made ; for this would not only be the exercise of judicial power, but it ...
Thomas McIntyre Cooley, 1868
Any agreement on such other provisions of the Collective Bargaining Agreement
shall retroact to the day immediately following such date. If any such agreement
is entered into beyond six months, the parties shall agree on the duration of ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETROACT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
retroact is used in the context of the following news items.
More civic workers cracking six figures
Some of those employees - 128 of 487 - were bumped over the threshold because of retroact ive pay received in 2014 due to contracts being settled. «Saskatoon StarPhoenix, Jul 15»
Turkey's top court confronts Erdoğan's gov't on judicial independence
Bozdağ noted it impossible to retroact the Constitutional Court's ruling when the government's reassignments of judges and prosecutors are taken into ... «Today's Zaman, Apr 14»
