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“Fall”, “fell”, “felled”
How is the causative form of fall used in English?
In the present tense, often enough,
A tree falls in the woods, but a logger falls trees as well.
but in the past tense,
A tree fell in the ...
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Why has “sware” become “swore”, “bare” “bore”, etc?
As far as I know, there are four verbs (swear, bear, tear, and wear) whose simple past forms used to be (archaically) sware, bare, tare, and ware; but are now exclusively swore, bore, tore, and wore. ...
