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 […]
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