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Regular Verb A verb that forms its past tense and past participle by adding -d or-ed (or in some cases -t) to the base form. (Also known as a weak verb.)

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Irregular Verb A verb that does not follow the usual rules for verb forms. Also known as a strong verb. Verbs in English are irregular if they don t have a conventional -edform (like asked or ended).

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The English verb "pay" sounds regular: "I pay", "I paid", and "I have paid" are all pronounced as expected. But the spelling is irregular and that cannot be perfectly predicted; for example, "pay" and "lay" turn into "paid" and "laid", but "s ay" and "stay" turn into "s ayed" and "stayed". In contrast to regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs that fall outside the standard patterns of con!ugation in the languages in hich they occur.

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"rammatical con!ugation
In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection #regular alteration according to rules of grammar$. %on!ugation may be affected by person, number, gender, tense, aspect, mood, voice, or othergrammatical categories. &ll the different forms of the same verb constitute a lexeme and the form of the verb that is conventionally used to represent the canonical form of the verb #one as seen in dictionary entries$ is a lemma. Inflection of nounsand ad!ectives is 'no n as declension. %on!ugated forms of a verb are called finite forms. In many languages there are also one or more forms that remain unchanged ith all or most of grammatical categories: the non(finite forms, such as the infinitive or the gerund. & table giving all the con!ugated variants of a verb in a given language is called a conjugation table or a verb paradigm. & regular verb has a set of conventions for con!ugation #paradigm$ that derives all forms from a fe specific forms or principal parts #maybe only one, such as the infinitive in English$, in spelling or pronunciation. & verb that has con!ugations deviating from this convention is said to be an irregular verb. Typically the principal parts are the root and)or several modifications of it #stems$. Conjugation is also the traditional name of a group of verbs that share a similar con!ugation pattern in a particular language #a verb class$. This is the sense in hich teachers say that *atin has four con!ugations of verbs. This means that any regular *atin verb can be con!ugated in any person, number, tense, mood, and voice by 'no ing hich of the four con!ugation groups it belongs to, and its principal parts.

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