Dictionaries list past-tense and past participle forms for every irregular verb. So you can always look them up — if you know how. Here are four verbs with tricky past tenses. Bear. When your ...

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Turn to the front of a physical dictionary or look under the “Help” section of an online dictionary, and you’ll find information about “inflected forms.” That term means the different forms of a word ...

Today, the majority of English verbs take the suffix '-ed' in their past tense versions. Sitting alongside these regular verbs like 'talked' or 'typed' are irregular ones that obey more antiquated ...

A regular verb is one that conforms to the rules of grammar, whereas an irregular verb is one that does not ... but the most common one you will use besides the present tense will be the past tense.

A RECENT ARTICLE in The Economist on Germany’s coalition talks was given the headline “Green-lit”. Elsewhere, though, we have reported that ventures were “greenlighted”. Another new verb ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. The blog is on holiday until the start of October, when I’ll return with fresh material. For decades ...