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WANG CHUN Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Morphological principle.

Hello
I just konw ride, rode, ridden is like irregular verb.
How can I use the morphological principle to explain ride changed to'' rode and ridden" not''roden"?
Thank you
  

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Irregular verb. Don't think too much, memorize it.

  • Irregular verb.
  • Don't think too much, memorize it.
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Irregular verb. Don't think too much, memorize it.
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Irregular verbs can be grouped by their similarities, but each group turns out to have so few members that it's hardly worth the trouble to learn them by groups.

Nevertheless, ride belongs to a small group of irregular verbs which have i in the infinitive and -en in the past participle. Almost all such irregular verbs have o in the past, and i in t

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