When I am empress of the universe, one of my first decrees shall be to make the past tense of “quit”, “quat”.
Because the lulz.
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When I am empress of the universe, one of my first decrees shall be to make the past tense of “quit”, “quat”.
Because the lulz.
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Adam
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Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •also because verbing nouns is fun, you will often hear in our household exchanges like:
"Shall I buy a baguette?" "no, I have already baguotten today"
(or "I'm making spaghetti", "great choice, we haven't spaghotten for ages!")
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Chris Packham
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in reply to Chris Packham • • •That's not actually irregular, it conforms to a clear pattern: Sit, sat. Drink, drank. Fit, fat.
Sarah Brown
in reply to Rebeca • •@Rebeca @Chris Packham It is irregular. A regular verb in English has the following form:
Infinitive: (To) X
3rd person singular present indicative: Xs (or other standard plurals)
Gerund: Xing
Participle/preterit: Xed
And that’s it. There are some patterns of irregular verbs, but regular ones all have stem+ed as their past tense.
Chris Packham
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