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

Yet as the participle do is never found prefixed to the Future Negative of any regular verb, it appears more agreeable to the analogy of conjugation to write this tense in its simplest form t�id.

From Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Stewart, Alexander

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

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

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

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

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