irregular verb
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But other people’s mental grammars see “greenlight” as a form of the verb “to light”, an existing irregular verb with the past tense “lit”; hence “greenlit”.
From Economist • Sep. 22, 2016
Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Why pay so much attention to the lowly irregular verb?
From Time Magazine Archive
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It will be noticed in the final segment of this listing, beginning with Y, Rodriguez makes no effort to distinguish among Kami-ichidan, kami-nidan, and the irregular verb Ki 'to come.'
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.
Present, Having Past, Had The irregular verb to be, stands thus:
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens
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