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The dental preterite — how “-ed” was born
Why is it “walk, walked” but “sing, sang”? Old English had two past-tense systems — and you use both every day.
ContinueUnit 4 · Ġeardagas — the past tenses. After this unit: you can tell stories about what happened — and read Alfred the Great complaining about the state of English education in 890.