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Such verbs in English as called weak verbs. Those that form the past tense by changing a vowel (or vowels) in the root word are called strong verbs.

On that view, examples of weak verbs are walk/walked; open/opened; spill/spilled. Examples of strong verbs are run/ran; think/thought; seek/sought. Some verbs have both forms currently in use. An example is dive/dived-dove. The issue of strong versus weak verbs is a bit more detailed than that. For more information about strong and weak verbs, see www.bartleby.com/68/73/5773.html Some grammarians call weak verbs "regular," strong verbs "irregular." Other grammarians reserve he terms "regular" and "irregular" for another system of verb classification. The strong-weak contrast is the basis of an old story of an Arkansas farmer who said, "I knew he knowed me when I seed he shuv his hand outen the winduh and wuv at me."

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