Monday, July 7, 2014

Past tense

Sometime lately, Eddie has begun using the past tense, without me noticing. It becomes noticeable when he tries to use irregular verbs.

For example, he was at the Monument a few days ago, chasing squirrels around. After several squirrels had evaded him, he came to me and complained. He just wanted to pet the squirrels, he explained. He saw another squirrel nearby and chased it, shouting "Pet! Pet!" Alas, the squirrel fled, and Eddie came back, reporting "Squirrel runned away."

Later, he was examining a bug, which left. "Bug flyed away!" he said. "Oh, the bug flew away." I said. Eddie picked up on the difference and said "Yeah, bug flewed away."

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