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[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

this reminds me of a time (similar situation, english as a second language, and i knew english better than the english teacher) the teacher was talking about past tense, and trying to find a word that ends with a "y" to show an example of adding "ed" to the end.

the example? buy turning into buyed. i corrected her, saying the past tense of buy was bought. she gave another example: fly turning into flyed. i corrected her again, saying it was flew, but she just gave up and used flyed as the example anyway

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When we started learning about past tense (primary school, probably 6th year, amazing teacher), the first thing we learned was a list of irregular verbs. We spent at least a week just memorizing them before the regular -d/-ed verbs were even mentioned. I'd like to think it was a deliberate choice, to condition us to consider irregular verbs first when using past tense.

That same teacher also taught us how to write and read the international phonetic alphabet. Again, she was amazing.

[-] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

i wish i had that teacher at school. thankfully i had a pretty good teacher in an english course i did for a few years

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