drig drag drug?
Peter A. McGraw
pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Wed Jul 3 21:31:16 UTC 2002
--On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 5:06 PM -0400 Mark A Mandel <mam at THEWORLD.COM>
wrote:
> Technically, strong verbs are not the same as irregular verbs. In the
> Germanic languages many verbs change the vowel in the stem to form the
> past tense and/or the past participle:
>
> drink/drank/drunk
> sing/sang/sung
>
> fly/flew/flown
>
> ride/rode/ridden
>
> think/thought/thought
>
> Note that none of these examples use the regular, or "weak", ending
> "-(e)d" in either of the inflected forms. "Walk" is a weak verb:
>
> walk/walked/walked
>
>
Technically, think/thought/thought isn't actually a strong verb, but an
irregular weak one. It has the dental ending, even if it's spelled with a
t instead of a d.
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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College * McMinnville, OR
pmcgraw at linfield.edu
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