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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

An inquiry about some verbs in the simple past



Dear sir or madam,

I am a teatcher of English in Morocco. I am writing this message because I have an inquiry. You see, I am currently writing a book on conjugation of irregular verbs because the majority of students here have a difficulty in making a difference between the different tenses in English. That's why I choose to write this book which will be a reference for pupils here in Morocco. But I have a problem. There are some verbs which do not take the continuous form such as to wed, to smell, to know. There are other verbs which can't be conjugated in the third person (it) because they tend to have human feature like to think, to speak.I don't know what to do with these verbs. Shall I mention that they do not take 'ing'for example or they can't be conjugated them using (it)? other verbs are mostly used in the passive form like 'to strew.'Anyway Here is the list of verbs which I have problem with:



to backbite, to backside, to be, to befall, to bereave, to beseech, to beset, to bet, to bethink, to bid, to bless, to bowbeat, to bust, to chide, to choose, to clap, to cleave, to colorbreed, to cost, to countershink, to crossbreed, to dare, to daydream, to disprove, to dream, to dwell, to eawind, to feel, to fling, to floodlight, to forbear, to forbid, to forecast, to gainsay, to gild, to gird, to hagride, to hamstring, to handwrite, to ken, to kneel, to know, to lade, to mean, to melt, to offset, to plead, to quit, to see, to sew, to share, to shear, to shoe, to shrive, to sightread, to slay, to slit, to smell, to sow, to speak, to spell, to spend, to spring, to stink, to strew, to string, to sublet, to swear, to sweat, to telecast, to tell, to think, to thrust, to tread, to troubleshoot, to typecast, to typeset, to understand, to waylay, to wed, to wet.

I am in need of your advice. Thank you very much in advance.

Yours sincerely,

Abdellatif Benamar
  
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