Engelsk grammatik: verber, substantiver og adjektiver

seks forskellige eksempler på uregelmæssige verber i præsens

tre forskellige eksempler på regelmæssige verber i præsens

Forklar forskellen på regelmæssige og uregelmæssige verbers bøjning. Inddrag alle eksemplerne i din forklaring.

uregelmæssige verber i præsens

regelmæssige verber i præsens

1

find

account

2

Grow (ing-form i teksten)

Prevent (infinitiv i teksten)

3

get

cherish

4

Know (præteritum i teksten)

5

throws

6

take

Forklaring:Regelmæssige verber danner deres bøjning i præsens ved at tilføje -s i 3. person singularis (he/she/it prevents, cherishes).

Uregelmæssige verber har uforudsigelige former, der ikke følger et fast mønster (fx I find / he finds, I take / he takes, men stammen skifter i andre tider: find – found – found, take – took – taken).

I eksemplerne:

account, prevent, cherish følger den regelmæssige tilføjelse af -s.

find, grow, get, know, throw, take er uregelmæssige, fordi de ændrer vokal eller får helt nye former i præteritum og perfektum.

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.