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regular verb

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  1. A verb that follows standard patterns in its inflection. The past tense of a regular verb is formed by adding an -ed ending: walk, walk ed; shout, shout ed. (Compare irregular verb.)


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The auxiliaries ete, tede, elele, should be distinguished from the regular verb, tede or ta, to make.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

All the other forms follow the inflection of the regular verb.

From Greek in a Nutshell by James Strong

Own, as now used, is either a pronominal adjective, as, "my own hand," or a regular verb thence derived, as, "to own a house."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

He was an infant of moods and tenses, and those not of any regular verb.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 by Various

A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

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