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

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

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

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

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

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