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Can you please list at least 5 pairs of irregular verbs and their correct ussage which are commonly mistaken in use...
For example...

raise vs rise When used as a verb they both have the same general meaning of "to move upwards", the main difference is that rise is an intransitive verb (it does not take an object), while raise is a transitive verb (it requires an object):

rise (v) Something rises by itself

For example:-
The sun rises in the east.
The chairman always rises to the occasion.
I will rise tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. to walk the dog.
Rise is an irregular verb: rise / rose / risen

raise (v) Something else is needed to raise something.

For example:-
Lynne raised her hand.
The government is going to raise taxes.
They can't raise the Titanic.
Raise is a regular verb: raise / raised / raised

2006-11-15 00:52:56 · 6 answers · asked by twowizdom 2 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

6 answers

hurt - hurted
cost - costed

These are the ones I can think of for now.

2006-11-15 07:09:38 · answer #1 · answered by Earthling 7 · 3 0

in assessment to virtually everybody else, i'm actual going to respond to the query. weird and wonderful verbs are made so via utilization. in case you seem at weird and wonderful verbs, they're those that are (or, traditionally, have been) used the main. as an occasion, the verbs "to be" and "to have" are weird and wonderful in distinctly much each language. All words replace over the years, yet those that are used maximum gets replaced the main at as quickly as. by the way, verbs like "to take", which replace the internal vowel, and characteristic a prior participle ending in "-en", are actually not weird and wonderful, even although they're often reported as such. they're in simple terms a distinctive conjugation. they're ordinary as "solid" verbs, and we get them from German. in reality, by way of fact English grew to become into initially German (Saxon), and grew to become into purely motivated later via different languages like French, you ought to argue that they are the general verbs, and the others are weird and wonderful. (yet we don't, of direction.) in reality, irregularity in verbs is a sort of corruption, which occurs in all words in all languages, to a bigger or lesser degree. many times, the maximum common words get corrupted the main.

2016-10-22 03:15:41 · answer #2 · answered by balderas 4 · 0 0

I had to lie down here for several hours.
I can't lie to someone who trusts men.

2006-11-15 00:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0 0

twowizdom this is to hard so can i have a lie down instead

2006-11-15 00:56:21 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Did you want any answers or just letting us know how much you know.

2006-11-15 02:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by wozza.lad 5 · 0 0

no

2006-11-15 00:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by yvohou91 2 · 0 1

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