By: Kayleen West - Children's Book Illustrator,
on 7/5/2011
This week I finally made it to the half way mark. I have half the illustrations finished for the book I am working on. Most of the illustrations are double page spreads but here one of the single pages.
By: Stephanie,
on 12/12/2007
By Anatoly Liberman
Strange things have been observed in the history of the verb shine, or rather in the history of its preterit (past). To begin with, a reminder. Verbs that change their vowels in the formation of the preterit and past participle are called strong (for instance, sing—sang—sung, shake—shook—shaken, smite—smote—smitten), in contradistinction to verbs that achieve the same results with the help of -t or -d (for instance, shock—shocked—shocked, cry—cried—cried). For practical purposes this division is almost useless, for weak verbs can also change their vowels, as in sleep—slept, and mixed types exist (the past of strew is strewed, but the past participle is usually strewn). (more…)
