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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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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

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

From Greek in a Nutshell by Strong, James

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

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