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Today's topic: Verbal past tense
Long ago somewhere wet and rainy (the British Isles) lived a language that changed some of its verbs to the past tense by changing the vowel.
Well it turns out that English did just that.
So you have the reminantes of this system 'sing' (present) and 'sang' (past).
Now for some verbs they changed over to add a dental-past i.e. -ed.
As can be seen the English verbal system is now in a transitional phase where verbs that previously changed tense via vowel now some are changing to the -ed form.
Not all the verbs will change so most likely the verb sing will never singed.
A brief list below is a list that normally has vowel change but not for all speakers in all areas.
Bring
Weep
Shine
Take
Sweep
Ride
Write
Ring
Sit
Wind
Come
Bear
Slay
-Нафаня-
Today's topic: Verbal past tense
Long ago somewhere wet and rainy (the British Isles) lived a language that changed some of its verbs to the past tense by changing the vowel.
Well it turns out that English did just that.
So you have the reminantes of this system 'sing' (present) and 'sang' (past).
Now for some verbs they changed over to add a dental-past i.e. -ed.
As can be seen the English verbal system is now in a transitional phase where verbs that previously changed tense via vowel now some are changing to the -ed form.
Not all the verbs will change so most likely the verb sing will never singed.
A brief list below is a list that normally has vowel change but not for all speakers in all areas.
Bring
Weep
Shine
Take
Sweep
Ride
Write
Ring
Sit
Wind
Come
Bear
Slay
-Нафаня-
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