regular verb

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

It was a regular verb, unclebentley, unclebentleyed, unclebentleying.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

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

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 Brown, Goold

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