regular verb
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It was a regular verb, unclebentley, unclebentleyed, unclebentleying.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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
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 Henry Jenner
When derived from a regular verb, it ends in ed, and corresponds with the imperfect tense; as, ruled, smiled: "The letter is written."
From English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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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