Where are all these -ENs coming from???

Past Participles -- (-en)

Old English
Storng verbs:
Tense being changed by quality of the vowel.
stelan - Infinitive (to steal)
ic stele - present 1st sing (I steal)
ic stæl - past 1st sing (I stole)
stelende - present participle (stealing)
(ge)stolen - past participle (stolen)

Weak verbs:
Idicate tense by adding an ending
hælan - infinitive (to heal)
ic hæle - present 1st person sing (i heal)
ic hælde - past 1st person sing (i healed)
hælende - present participle (healing)
hæled - past participle (healed)

Modern English
In my opinion, I think that in various dialects of English (esp in North American English) the people are reanylizing the -en suffix onto verbs that originally had not had it.
Verbs such as buy -->boughten, and bring---> broughten are two I can 100% confirm that people say in certain dialects.
More research and looking into this will have to be done but It will be interesting to see if any other verbs are doing this.

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P.S. Yes there is a trend in other dialects to remove the participle and replace it with the past tense from. (this trend the more common of the two)
I have ridden/I have rode

Verbs? Past? What?

Sorry for the delay! I have been busy with work and getting graduate school applications put together.

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

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