The author integrates, expands, and deepens his previous publications about irregular (or “metalinguistic”) negations. A total of ten distinct negatives―several previously unclassified―are analyzed. The logically irregular negations deny different implicatures of their root. All are partially non-compositional but completely conventional.
Learn English with Sentences: Irregular verbs in the past tense
English has many irregular verbs that are quite tricky to learn. I've written a collection of more than a thousand sentences and questions, using these irregular verbs. I've chosen verbs that are used a lot in everyday conversation so they will be beneficial to any learner of English. You'll find 55 irregular verbs written in the past tense in a range of different sentences and questions in the positive and negative using both the simple past and the compound past tense.
The English language has a large number of irregular verbs, approaching 200 in normal use—and significantly more if prefixed forms are counted. In most cases, the irregularity concerns the past tense (also called preterite) or the past participle.
First the good news - all new verbs in English are regular. However, that doesn't help you to learn the approximately 180 irregular verbs which do exist. Luckily some of these are extremely rare but many others are very useful and you need to know them. So how do you learn them? Some teachers think you should learn a list of them 'by heart'. Other teachers think you should not learn them at all – you will just gradually acquire them over time.
