For regular verbs, past forms are not shown. So an irregular verb like “swim” will have after it “swam,” indicating the simple past tense, then “swum,” the past participle.

Mastering English tenses is crucial for fluency, enabling precise communication of when actions occur. The English tense system organizes time into past, present, and future, each with simple, ...

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 ...

Of 177 irregular verbs, 79 became regular in the last millennium. ... regular verbs are conjugated into the simple past and past-participle forms by appending the dental suffix ‘-ed’ to the ...

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 ...