Essentials of English GrammarScholar's Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988 - 290 pages |
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Page 110
... regular verbs of the New conjugation , as we have seen , form their preterit and their past participle alike , by adding ed or d to the root or infinitive . Thus , looked , begged , hoped , robbed , raised , wished , waited , united ...
... regular verbs of the New conjugation , as we have seen , form their preterit and their past participle alike , by adding ed or d to the root or infinitive . Thus , looked , begged , hoped , robbed , raised , wished , waited , united ...
Page 111
... regular form with ed added , or an irregular , with the final d simply changed to t , is allowed : thus , build , builded or built ; rend , rended or rent ; gird , girded or girt . And the same is the case with gild , bend . But lend ...
... regular form with ed added , or an irregular , with the final d simply changed to t , is allowed : thus , build , builded or built ; rend , rended or rent ; gird , girded or girt . And the same is the case with gild , bend . But lend ...
Page 112
... regular , or forms the anomalous preterit ( not participle ) durst . 256. The principal parts being as here stated , the tense- inflection is almost always regular , according to the rules already given ( 243 ) . But have is irregular ...
... regular , or forms the anomalous preterit ( not participle ) durst . 256. The principal parts being as here stated , the tense- inflection is almost always regular , according to the rules already given ( 243 ) . But have is irregular ...
Contents
LANGUAGE AND GRAMMAR 115 pp 15 | 1 |
NOUNS 10848 pp 4665 | 46 |
PRONOUNS 14989 pp 6682 | 66 |
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