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
Why pay so much attention to the lowly irregular verb?
From Time Magazine Archive
Bon mot: "In all languages the verb 'to disarm' seems to be an irregular verb."
From Time Magazine Archive
Present, Having Past, Had The irregular verb to be, stands thus:
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
Read, an irregular verb active, infinitive mood, pres. tense, with the sign to understood, referring to you as its agent.
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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