Re: (In)transitive verbs

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:13:17PM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
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>>A couple of ways to remember which is which
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>>a) the intransitive is strong (irregular) the transitive weak  (regular)
>>rise rose risen     raise  raised raised or rear reared reared
>>fall fell fallen        fell felled felled
>>lie lay lain            lay laid laid
>>sit sat sat             set set set
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>Strong/weak, yes, but how exactly does "set, set, set" qualify as
>"regular"?  Regular would be "set, setted, setted".   And there's
>no regular "-etted" -> -"et" rule: "let" works like "set"; "fret",
>"jet", "net", and "vet" always keep the -ed; "bet" and "pet" can
>go either way; and "get" is hopelessly irregular anyway. :)
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It is regular.  '-ted' is reduced to 't' in most native Germanic
verbs(all?).  And 'strong' isn't irregular.  Merely another class, which
changes vowels rather than prefixes(in English).

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