On the modern Persian language transposition of the Past Simple Tense (preterite)
The article touches upon a frequent phenomenon of the modern Persian language namely the Past Simple Tense transposition along with its meanings of different verb tense forms in complex sentences with subordinate clauses of condition and time and in collocations. Despite the phenomenon is of obvious scientific and practical interest, it is yet to be thoroughly analyzed. The study expands our understanding of the transformed meanings of the verbal form considered and its use in speech for the practical benefit of the Persian language teaching. Given numerous illustrative examples of the language and their translation into Russian, the article can be useful for scholars of the Iranian language and other specialists interested in the phenomenon of transposition that is widely spread in different languages.