We were looking at a few verbs today, like ‘take, took, taken’ and ‘drink, drank, drunk’, and one of my students suddenly said ‘swim, swim, swimming’! And it made me think. Why are English verbs so difficult? If my students answer was the real answer then it would be so much easier.
BTW the answer is ‘swim, swam, swum’, unfortunately.
I’m a teacher, too, and I felt especially embarrassed for adults when I had to teach grammar to 2nd graders. Here’s a list of some of my peeves about English:
http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/ten-things-that-bug-me-about-english/
Perhaps you can relate to these?
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Great list Eric, I can relate to them all!
I try to content myself with the thought that it is the imperfections of English that provide the interest.
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I do like this kind of the story!
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These kind of things happen quite a lot in my classes, I will try to include more in future postings, thanks Sophoeun Pich.
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