Fwd: another "bare PST/PSP"

[Arnold Zwicky]

for reference: abbreviations for names of verb forms in my previous
posting:

>> PST past tense
> PSP past participle
> PRS present tense
> (PRP present participle)
> BSE base form ["unmarked infinitive"]

meanwhile Amy West has reported another "paste" oddity, namely "copy
and paste" treated as a unit and inflected only on the second verb:

   ok partly copy and pasted from something I wrote earlier today.
rippled-water.blog.co.uk/2009/01/03/freshly-written-not-copy-and-pasted

   I copy and pasted my novel from scrivener then from having exported
scrivener but no thing has happened.
www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3138654

   Invalid public key. Make sure you copy and pasted it correctly.
www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=270716

(*huge* number of examples -- though only a third as many as for
"copied and pasted")

arnold

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