Tense exchanges.(verbs)

Word Ways | February 1, 2009| | Copyright

Tense exchanges occur when the past and present tenses of the same verb lock on to, or interlock with, another letter or letters to make two other words. Thus FALL and FELL appear in FALLOW and FELLOW, locked on to -OW; RUN and RAN appear in RUIN and RAIN, interlocked with -I. The tenses always appear in the same position(s) in the two words. Past tenses ending with -ED are excluded. Occasionally, the two whole words which incorporate the two tenses form two other tenses themselves, as in the case of STRIDE and STRODE. Such examples are asterisked *. The present tense is ...

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