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Ashwini Kumar Yadav Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

How many of you know that there are around 638 English irregular verbs?

According to pasttenses.com, there are around 638 English Irregular verbs which they have curated here: https://pasttenses.com/irregular-verbs-list
They claim this is the most complete list. I would like to know how may of you were aware that there are more than 638 English irregular verbs in English?
  

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Many of those are highly obscure, obsolete, unknown, or created by adding uncommon prefixes. Some aren't actually irregular in any visible way.

  • Many of those are highly obscure, obsolete, unknown, or created by adding uncommon prefixes.
  • Some aren't actually irregular in any visible way.
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Many of those are highly obscure, obsolete, unknown, or created by adding uncommon prefixes. Some aren't actually irregular in any visible way.
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Most of them are never used.

On the first page alone, only four are in regular use.

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