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The Past Tense of Stay Is Stayed: A Regular Verb Whose -ed Ending Keeps Disappearing
Stay is a regular verb — both the simple past and past participle are stayed. The hard part is a final /d/ sound that learners' ears almost always drop.
The Wallaby18 min read
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The Past Tense of Look: Looked, the Final /kt/ Cluster, and the Look/Luck/Lock Trio
Look is a regular verb — past tense and past participle are both looked. The hard part is the /kt/ cluster at the end, which gets clipped in fast speech, so the whole tense seems to vanish.
The Wallaby19 min read
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The Past Tense of 'Live' Is 'Lived' (Plus the Other 'Live' Pronounced /laɪv/)
Live is a regular verb — past tense and past participle are both lived. The hard part: the /d/ ending carries the whole tense and then vanishes, plus there's another live pronounced /laɪv/.
The Wallaby19 min read