There is one verb that is irregular and weak in the past tense, but strong in the the non-progressive participle: do, did, done. A few verbs are strong in the past tense, but weak regular in the ...

Normally in the past tense, you do not need to worry about subject-verb agreement because you can conjugate most regular past tense verbs to the singular or plural by adding an -ed to the end of the ...

Today, less than 3% of verbs are irregular but they wield a disproportionate power. The ten most commonly used English verbs – be, have, do, go say, can, will, see, take and get – are all ...

Dictionaries list past-tense and past participle forms for every irregular verb. So you can always look them up — if you know how. Here are four verbs with tricky past tenses. Bear.

Yesterday you were. In the past you have been. So for irregular verbs, the only way to get past tense forms right is to memorize them — or look them up. Which brings us back to lay and lie.

Now, Erez Lieberman, Martin Nowak and colleagues from Harvard University are looking at this record to mathematically model how our verbs evolved and how they will change in the future. Today, the ...