Irregular Verb Classes. Linguistics 220/222 /323 . There are two main classes of verbs in English: strong and weak. 'Strong' is a historical terms that refers to the of verbs in which the past tense ...

How the irregular verb is being 'drived' to extinction. By DAVID DERBYSHIRE. Last updated at 01:25 11 October 2007 ...

Irregular verbs are those that don’t follow the “regular” pattern of inflection. For a regular verb, like “walk,” the pattern is: “I walk a mile every day” (present tense).

Subject-verb agreement means that your verb must be conjugated, or changed, to fit (or agree) with the subject. Subjects can be singular or plural. Think of singular and plural as mathematical ...

Today, less than 3% of verbs are irregular but they wield a disproportionate power. The ten most commonly used English verbs – be, have, do, go say, can, will, see, take and get – are all ...

Now, Erez Lieberman, Martin Nowak and colleagues from Harvard University are looking at this record to mathematically model how our verbs evolved and how they will change in the future. Today, the ...