Sentence examples for irregular past from inspiring English sources

Another area of difficulty that learners of English often comment on is the prevalence of irregular past verbs in English.

This is followed by mastery of the irregular past tense ("I made," "I had"), possessives (my, mine, his), articles (a, an, the), and the regular past tense ("I walked," "he stopped").

General information besides questionnaire contained dental attendances (regular or irregular), past dental visit and socio-demographic features including gender, age, education, marital status, smoking and alcohol use.

Furthermore, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the left anterior temporal lobe resulted in selective disruption of irregular past tense verbs, but not regular verbs (Holland & Lambon Ralph, 2010).

To determine whether our data showed a LAN for overregularisation of irregular past participles, as reported by Penke et al. (1997), we conducted ANOVAs with the factors Regularity, Correctness, and ROI for both time-windows.

Second and more importantly, studies on the English past tense have suggested that processing differences between regular and irregular past tense forms might be due to differences in phonological complexity (Bird et al. 2003; McClelland and Patterson, 2002).

Interpreting dissociations between regular and irregular past-tense morphology: evidence from event-related potentials.

The performance of all patients deteriorated in delayed repetition; but the patients with the largest discrepancy between regular and irregular past-tense production showed greater sensitivity to the other two manipulations.

THE grammar of Ukrainian politics is irregular, with past, present and future tenses overlapping, and conditional and absolute moods switching with bewildering rapidity.

Out of the pre-tested participles we selected 100 regular and 100 irregular German past participles, i.e., four participle categories with 50 items each: high frequency irregular participles (IH), low frequency irregular participles (IL), high frequency regular participles (RH), and low frequency regular participles (RL) (see Appendix A).

Poll-watching anywhere in the state is a right of either party, and Mr. Fletcher and other Republican officials say the precincts at issue have produced irregular results in past elections.