backshift

  1. Noun.  (grammar) The changing of the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.
  2. Noun.  (statistics) A function on a (soplink, stochastic) whose value on any random variable is the preceding random variable in the process.
  3. Verb.  (grammar, transitive) To change the tense of a verb from present to past in reported speech.

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