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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regular verb

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

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

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 Brown, Goold

But strew, I incline to think, is properly a regular verb only, though Wells and Worcester give it otherwise: if strewn has ever been proper, it seems now to be obsolete.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

I. A regular verb is a verb that forms the preterit and the perfect participle by assuming d or ed; as, love, loved, loving, loved.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The following is a complete paradigm of a regular verb, showing the various forms. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry