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Irregular past tense confusion with compound noun/verb. More examples?
Students of martial arts may be familiar with a breakfall, which can (depending on the situation) be treated as a noun or a verb.
I am often amused when speakers, even native English speakers (myself ...
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“Overrode” vs “Overridden”
I got into an argument about the sentence "Have you overrode SomeThingamajig?"
I thought that "have overrode" is incorrect, and should be "overrode" or "have overridden", or perhaps "did override".
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Past tense vs Past participle tense [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Present perfect tense versus past tense
Here is the example:
I haven't spoken any English for more than 3 years.
vs.
I didn't speak any English over the past 3 ...
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Are the verbs that are conjugated to end in “-n” in the past related?
There are many words that in English are conjugated in the past tense to end in "-n": grow goes to grown, sew goes to sewn, throw goes to thrown, etc.. I'm guessing it was probably the regular ...
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“when I clicked on video file nothing has happened”
when I clicked on video file nothing
has happened.
Is that correct?
