English, like most Germanic languages, has many regular ("weak") verbs, like work, worked, worked (in standard dictionary format, listing present, past, and past participle), and a bewildering ...

More obscure irregular verbs, however, are less readily learned and more easily ... This means that if they are used 100 times less frequently, they will regularise 10 times as fast and if they are ...

This wonderful lesson in irregular verbs is from the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” Irregular verbs are ...

But there are irregular verbs! The big two you need to know are ‘to go’ - ‘ir’ and ‘to be’ - ‘ser’. Luckily, they’re both the same in the preterite. They become: ‘fui ...

Irregular verbs obey antiquated rules (sing/sang/sung) or, in some cases, no rule at all (go/went) 14,15. New verbs entering English universally obey the regular conjugation (google/googled ...

More obscure irregular verbs, however, are less readily learned ... This means that if they are used 100 times less frequently, they will regularise 10 times as fast and if they are used 10,000 ...