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

I believe the spelling is "When did you use to go to France?" I've always been shaky on the spelling in this case, in an attempt to reflect the pronunciation. I would normally ... (="accustomed"). I can't think of any

At 08:15:06 on Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Einde O'Callaghan (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): For which one might better say "When did you used to go to France?". I believe the spelling is "When did you use to go to France?"

Excuse me, I put 'Approaching' instead of 'Seizing'. Hi Ariel, Why don't you try the Cambridge Dictionary online? Just click in "show phonetics". :-) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Irma. BTW Mexican. Thanks, I am

Hi friends, I am back, I am studying the pronunciation of past tense, I found these rules: 1. If the ... ends (written) with 't' or 'd', add /Id/ Where does the word 'delete' fall?, I mean according to those rules, Rule 3

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

} "Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote in message } }> }> Since the pronunciations are identical, this might confuse some people. } But }> it should be easy enough to memorize the distinction in spelling. "Used }

( snip, ...) And what's that though? You're not really taking my point, ... a participle that parallels "damaged" but a word in itself. As Donna announced several times: she is now on vacation for a week. Sorry, I don't

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

Spelling pronunciation is a phenomenon of mostly-literate times; and for how this can work out, somtimes amusingly, sometimes embarrassingly, see the FAQ under "misles". I remember as a kid saying "misled" as if it was the past