Reblogged from The Daily Post at WordPress.com:
I’ve written a couple of posts about tricky irregular verbs such as lead and lie/lay. Today I ran across a recent post about irregular verbs at the Language Log blog that lists some of the more confusing verbs and their proper forms alongside verbs with similar present-tense forms whose past tense forms are created differently. I pulled this table straight out of the post. PLAIN PRES PRETERITE PAST PART. hit hit hit hit sit sit sat sat right right righted righted light light lit lit fight …