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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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"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.