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Show From Personal Observation One of the questions put to a class of rural adults was: "In the sentence, sen-tence, 'The bird flew over the house, is 'Hew' a regular cr an Irregular verb?" Tliis proved a sticker for the class, but finally one man ventured ven-tured an answer. Said he, "If the bird that flew over the house was a wild goose, it went In a straight, regular reg-ular line, so the verb Is regular; but If it was a woodpecker, then fi vent I in a crooked, zigzag line, and so the I verb Is Irregular." Ail but the gramma r-bounl r-amir.er r-amir.er was Kutl.sf.ed wiib this ra- 1 tional explanation. |