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Unless of
course your English split from the mother tongue along with the Mayflower,
leading to archaic Americanism’s such as gotten and
glid �� -----Original Message----- >what is the past tense of glide?) Seems that "glided" is
correct - some "Google answers" are: Phonologically
similar to the stems of irregular verbs (e.g. glide–glided;
cf. ride–rode, hide–hid). Unlike ‘‘consistent regulars’’,
whose stems are phonologically dissimilar to the stems of regular verbs,
inconsistent regular verbs are predicted by a dual-system view to be memorised;
if they were not, people would utter forms like glid or glode,
which does not appear to occur. An example of a strong verb that has been
converted into a weak verb is 'to glide', whose past form used to be 'glad'. ****************** Past
participle is the third principal part of an English verb. In weak verbs, the
pattern is glide, glided, glided; in strong verbs the
pattern varies in form: it can be unchanging, as in set, set, set;
it can change vowels for past tense and past
participle, as in swim, swam, swum; it can change vowels and
add a final -n or -en for the past participle, as in fly,
flew, flown and drive, drove, driven;
or it can have various combinations of these three general patterns. The forms
of strong verb past participles
are often in divided usage (show, showed, showed or shown; prove, proved, proved
or proven -- Personal Computer Concepts Uniform Time PO Box 114 INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068 -----
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To: 'Discussion of issues relating to
Soaring in Australia.' Sent: Thursday, September 02,
2004 10:02 AM Subject: RE:
[Aus-soaring] Gliding in the USA
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