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  2. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    English irregular verbs are now a closed group, which means that newly formed verbs are always regular and do not adopt any of the irregular patterns. This list only contains verb forms which are listed in the major dictionaries as being standard usage in modern English. There are also many thousands of archaic, non-standard and dialect variants.

  3. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently used English verbs are all irregular. New verbs (including loans from other languages, and nouns employed as verbs) usually follow the regular inflection, unless they are compound formations from an existing irregular verb (such as housesit , from ...

  4. Subject–object–verb word order - Wikipedia

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    In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. If English were SOV, "Sam apples ate" would be an ordinary sentence, as opposed to the actual Standard English "Sam ate apples" which is subject–verb–object (SVO).

  5. English relative clauses - Wikipedia

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    (The infinitive verbs are 'to beat' and 'to rely'; the antecedents are 'woman' and 'man', respectively.) infinitive clauses presenting an 'implied' (and unvoiced) relative pronoun, or zero object argument, that takes an antecedent to that 'implied' argument: She is a woman to beat Ø; He is the man to rely on Ø.

  6. English verbs - Wikipedia

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    Verbs ending in a consonant plus o also typically add -es: veto → vetoes. Verbs ending in a consonant plus y add -es after changing the y to an i: cry → cries. In terms of pronunciation, the ending is pronounced as / ɪ z / after sibilants (as in lurches), as / s / after voiceless consonants other than sibilants (as in makes), and as / z ...

  7. Dependent and independent verb forms - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 12 Old Irish verbs that have no prefixes , called "simple verbs", have two sets of endings, absolute and conjunct. The conjunct endings are used after a variety of grammatical particles , including among others the negative particle ní ("not"), the interrogative particle in , and prepositions combined with the relative pronoun (e.g ...

  8. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    The simple past or past simple, sometimes also called the preterite, consists of the bare past tense of the verb (ending in -ed for regular verbs, and formed in various ways for irregular ones, with the following spelling rules for regular verbs: verbs ending in -e add only –d to the end (e.g. live – lived, not *liveed), verbs ending in -y ...

  9. Will - Wikipedia

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    3.1 Films. 3.2 Literature. 3.3 Music. ... a modal verb - see Shall and ... Will (Brazilian footballer) (born 1973) Will (singer), Italian singer-songwriter;