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I don't know of a webpage that drills these ideas, but here is some written material that may help. There are, in American English, five types of verb with regard to the pronunciation of the regular past tense. (The spelling rules are
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califjim
183 days ago
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As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make ... is fully conjugable, although some of its tenses are for the time being not used in today's English. In the same
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carmen l. abruzzi
5 yr 107 days ago
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In American English, "used to" and "use to" (in both the "s" being pronounced /s/ and in the former expression ... did not use to play on that team. Didn' t she use to work for your company? (end quote) No wonder
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As I've said before, and as you can gather from American usage guides, the word "use" with the sense "make it a practice" or "be accustomed" can be quite conveniently regarded as an ordinary English verb that is
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In American English, "used to" and "use to" (in both the "s" being pronounced /s/ and in the former expression having the "d" silent) are both standard *under the appropriate circumstances.* From *The
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raymond s. wise
5 yr 109 days ago
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Fonzie, might I convince you to help me raise objections to linguists' blithe and insulting decision to use the word "Philadelphia" to refer to the entire Upper Chesapeake pronunciation region? You think I don't know? I tell them
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I can't claim that my accent is 'typical' in general, since I am part of the minority that is MINMINM(tm) and BACINTC(tm)(1). (1)"(Be able) can is not (tin) can". By the way, contrary to popular belief, there are those of us
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This pronunciation seems to have its popularity enhanced by ots ... service: "oblique" rhyming with "strike" and "prep a tory" for Your old nemesis Robert A. Hall, Jr., used that pronunciation when referring to tenses
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In the recent discussion of the verb "use", meaning "to be accustomed", its use in the infinitive and the simple past tense were mentioned, but I don't recall that anyone mentioned its use in the past perfect tense. An
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bob cunningham
5 yr 200 days ago
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Because, of course, it isn't. The positive and negative senses ... enough to both that you can get away with it. I'm familiar with your and Professor Lawler's point of view, but I'm also aware that it collapses in the face of
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evan kirshenbaum
5 yr 201 days ago
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