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The English language has many irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use – and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.
Colleen Jo Matarico, 43, a Los Angeles teacher, was arrested last week and charged with seven counts of committing lewd acts on a student she met when he was 12. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times)
The preterite and past participle forms of irregular verbs follow certain patterns. These include ending in -t (e.g. build, bend, send), stem changes (whether it is a vowel, such as in sit, win or hold, or a consonant, such as in teach and seek, that changes), or adding the [n] suffix to the past participle form (e.g. drive, show, rise ...
The past participle of regular verbs is identical to the preterite (past tense) form, described in the previous section. For irregular verbs, see English irregular verbs. Some of these have different past tense and past participle forms (like sing–sang–sung); others have the same form for both (like make–made–made).
A Los Angeles special education teacher is accused of having sex with a 13-year-old student in her car and providing minors with marijuana — and police believe there may be other victims.
A longtime Burbank elementary school teacher was killed by her adult son after a fight, police said. Police officers and paramedics found Karyn Lombardo, 57, unconscious inside her home in the 800 ...
Modern English past participles derive from these forms (although the ge-prefix, which became y-in Middle English, has now been lost — except in some rare dialects such as the Dorset dialect, where it takes the form of a-). Old English present participles were marked with an ending in -ende (or -iende for verbs whose infinitives ended in -ian).
United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) is the main trade union for certified, non-administrative staff in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The union was incorporated in 1970 by the merger between the ( AFT -local) Los Angeles Teachers Alliance and the ( NEA -local) Classroom Teachers of Los Angeles.