verbs - Thrive-throve-thriven vs thrive-thrived-thrived - English . . . TL;DR Throve thriven and thrived thrived are all correct; however, the regular forms are more prevalent than the irregular ones in Present Day English Explanation According to this blog post, throve was the original past tense of thrive used during the nineteeth century That blog further says that it declined rapidly in use from 1910 onwards and seems to have regularised to thrived So what
modal verbs - English Language Learners Stack Exchange From Browning's Childe Roland: So, on I went I think I never saw Such starv’d ignoble nature; nothing throve: For flowers—as well expect a cedar grove! But cockle, spurge, according to
Why is the W silent in sword but not in swore? TLDR The W in 'two' and 'sword' is silent because of a sound change that took place somewhere between Old English Middle English The change applied to words in which the W was preceded by [s, t] and followed by a back vowel like [ɔ o ɑ u] etc 'Swore' and 'sworn' also lost their W's at one point, but were later on restored by analogy with swear The silent W in 'sword' and 'two' Between
grammar - Irregular verbs with two past forms - English Language . . . Is there any grammar to explain how some irregular verbs like "input" and " output " have two past forms? I've seen both " input inputted " and " output outputted " in written and spoken English Based on that " in " and " out " are just prefixes and the core verb is " put " that is only irregular, how is that correct and possible? I found this article Verbs with two different past tense forms
difference - Regular weak verb vs Irregular strong verb - English . . . A weak verb isn't quite the same thing as a regular verb Oxford defines a weak verb as follows: Grammar Denoting a class of verbs in Germanic languages that form the past tense and past participle by addition of a suffix (in English, typically -ed) As implied by "typically", a weak verb doesn't necessarily end "-ed" Verbs that ends -ed or -t in their past tense (and don't change their