- differences - Lept vs. leapt vs. leaped - English Language . . .
After reading this discussion, I'd like to know what example sentences distinguish the meaning of the words lept, leapt, and leaped from each other?
- Speeded vs. Sped - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I think "speeded" may have been the appropriate past-tense form for "to speed" in the past, but I wonder if it is still considered the correct form In spoken English, one usually hears "sped" to
- A Writer Lept to a Wrong Conclusion - DAILY WRITING TIPS
How was it, I wondered, that the fact that lept is not a word escape a writer, a developmental editor, a copy editor, and a proofreader (assuming that the manuscript benefited from perusal by each of these agents) — not to mention a spell-checking program? It’s easy enough for a writer to be mistaken about the validity of such a word
- american english - Why do some words have two past tense forms (e. g . . .
Leap was a strong verb, so its original forms was lept, but some people applied the more common weak form to produce leaped and again neither has completely overcome the other Sweep is still normally taken to only have swept as it's past tense, with sweeped generally considered incorrect, and not included in most dictionaries
- Came, saw, conquered - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It's sort of a silly question, but it confuses me and I have no choice but to ask What is the most accurate way to write: He came, he saw, he conquered Is it OK to use 'and' as in 'and he conque
- What does leap off mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In this sentence, "Over the years, they’d built snow forts together and leaped off backyard sheds together" what does "leap off" mean?
- When do you use “learnt” and when “learned”?
Ever since I was a child, I always spelt it learnt, dreamt, leapt etc I failed many English tests due to these spelling errors It just doesn't look or feel right when I spell or say learned, dreamed, leaped etc Maybe I'm stuck in a past life in 1810
- Which preposition to use in to live in fear [. . . ] ones life
- 1 because you don't cite any "authority" for this prescriptivist viewpoint "fear of one's life" is not a recent expression, at any rate: the OED gives the example "1490 Caxton tr Eneydos xlix 142 He lept in to one of the shippes for grete feer of his lyffe " A logical argument like the one you present here may have gotten currency among most prescriptivists, but it might not have
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