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
An irregular verb is a verb that does not form the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
Dame Hadwig, only a beginner herself, delighted in correcting her handmaiden, and was never so pleased, as when Praxedis took a substantive for an adjective, or conjugated an irregular verb as a regular one.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von
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