This is how dictionaries list past forms for irregular verbs: first the simple past tense, then the past participle, then the progressive participle. That past participle is the one that goes with ...

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 ...

For regular verbs, past forms are not shown. So an irregular verb like “swim” will have after it “swam,” indicating the simple past tense, then “swum,” the past participle. But a regul ...

Today, the majority of English verbs take the suffix ‘-ed’ in their past tense versions ... affects the way that irregular verbs disappear according to a very simple and mathematical formula.

infinitive/simple past/past participle: talk/talked/talked). Irregular verbs obey antiquated rules (sing/sang/sung) or, in some cases, no rule at all (go/went) 14,15. New verbs entering English ...

Today, the majority of English verbs take the suffix '-ed' in their past tense versions ... Amazingly, he found that this frequency affects the way that irregular verbs disappear according to a very ...