pronunciation - Why do we write "read" instead of "readed" and ...
2014年1月11日 · Why do we write read unchanged for present and past, while study changes; we have studied.. The present form of read is read, pronounced as "reed".
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2014年3月27日 · Sorted by: 3. roughly relates to quick estimates or drafts of a document (e.g. a proposal). What you want to give is a quick, first impression kind of reply. There are different ways to say this. At first glance, it doesn't seem to be what I want/need. This implies, however, that you might give it a second glance.
"A book to be read" vs "a book to read" - English Language
2014年8月12日 · 0. They are both correct. A book to be read refers to a book that someone has decided will be read. For example, if there is a textbook that everyone taking a certain course is required to read, the course instructor might say. This is a book to be read by everybody taking this course! Someone who has a favourite book might say something like.
I read it wrong / wrongly? - English Language & Usage Stack …
2017年4月24日 · The correct answer seems to be I read it wrong. In this sentence wrong would be what grammarians call a flat adverb, with flat meaning: Flat Gram. Not having an inflectional ending or sign, as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix, or an infinitive without the sign to.
Did bedridden ever refer to a literal riding of a bed?
2016年6月14日 · Looking into the origins of bedridden, I found that the word comes from: Old English bedreda, -rida, < bed bed + rida rider, < rídan to ride. OED I find that interesting, but still unsati...
Is "I hadn't read it yet" correct? - English Language & Usage Stack ...
2020年8月19日 · It is incorrect. The correct usage would be "I haven't read it yet". I hadn't read is past perfect tense which points to an event in the past. It is used to make it clear that one event happened before another in the past. It does correctly refer to another past event, namely the fact that someone sent her something.
Is 'read' the only word that has the same conjugation with …
2014年3月16日 · The past and present tenses of "read" are spelt the same but have different pronunciation. This question is related to the post Why are the past and present tenses of "read" spelt the same?.
Is there a grammatical rule for using "read" between parentheses?
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Why isn't "read" spelled "reat" [closed] - English Language
2015年12月11日 · The typical ME. forms are redde or radde in the pa. tense, and (i)red or (i)rad in the pa. pple.; in the later language (from the 17th c.) all tenses of the verb have the same spelling, read, though in pronunication the vowel of the preterite forms differs from that of the present and infinitive. Individual writers have from time to time ...
Why did only English undergo the Great Vowel Shift, making ...
2010年10月26日 · @Seamus, not really—place names are exempt from the ‘majority wins’ rule. When a small English village is locally pronounced as ‘chumly’ despite its name being spelt ‘Cholmondeley’, then that is its correct pronunciation: what the people who live there and use the name on a daily basis say.