True confession: back in the dim dark days of my English classes, I do not remember ever running into verb conjugation.  Tenses- past, present, and future – absolutely.  And I could diagram a sentence a treat.  But otherwise, you would just go with what sounded right (and it was helpful if you read a lot), but you mean there are rules?  Pfft.  This is English. I first ran into verb conjugation when I took up Spanish.  Spanish is such a reasonable language.  No silent letters […]