more than one kind of dove?, was Digest 2186
Vicki A. Dennis
Oh, my! Methinks that age is showing.
English is an ever evolving language.
I am not sure that makes usage that was taught less than half century ago a "mistake".
In fact, my less than a decade old Websters Collegiate New World STILL has dove listed as an alternate past tense of dive.
I well remember doing lists of present tense, past tense, past participle.
Drive, drove, driven
swing, swung, swung,
hang, hanged, hanged (for an execution)
hang, hung, hung (on the clothesline)
swim, swam, swum
run, ran, run
eat, ate, eaten
see, saw, seen
DIVE, DOVE, DIVED
Might be fun to make longer lists or "regular" and "irregular". I would not be surprised if one could fine in "good literature" instances where the hero "dove" in to swirling waters to save the damsel. Or someone on the ground watched as the plane dove to the ground, spinning in flames.
vicki
"Dove" is a little white bird, a noun.
"Dived" is the past tense of dive, a verb.
It IS good and correct grammar. "I dove into the pool" is NOT.
Common mistake.
Kelly
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English is an ever evolving language.
I am not sure that makes usage that was taught less than half century ago a "mistake".
In fact, my less than a decade old Websters Collegiate New World STILL has dove listed as an alternate past tense of dive.
I well remember doing lists of present tense, past tense, past participle.
Drive, drove, driven
swing, swung, swung,
hang, hanged, hanged (for an execution)
hang, hung, hung (on the clothesline)
swim, swam, swum
run, ran, run
eat, ate, eaten
see, saw, seen
DIVE, DOVE, DIVED
Might be fun to make longer lists or "regular" and "irregular". I would not be surprised if one could fine in "good literature" instances where the hero "dove" in to swirling waters to save the damsel. Or someone on the ground watched as the plane dove to the ground, spinning in flames.
vicki
"Dove" is a little white bird, a noun.
"Dived" is the past tense of dive, a verb.
It IS good and correct grammar. "I dove into the pool" is NOT.
Common mistake.
Kelly
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Liza Sabater
>Oh, my! Methinks that age is showing.It's not only the English language. First Saint Christopher is not a
>English is an ever evolving language.
saint, 'dived' is really 'dove'; Pluto is not a planet and the
Spanish RR is non-existent in many a Spanish dictionary. What is the
world coming to?!?!
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Vicki A. Dennis
Only on the second pass did I realize I had the need to address that many words cannot be identified as one of the eight "parts of speech".
Just as "dove" can be both a noun and a verb, "dive" has the same quality. Need I give a definition of "dive" as a noun?
vicki
"Dove" is a little white bird, a noun.
"Dived" is the past tense of dive, a verb.
It IS good and correct grammar. "I dove into the pool" is NOT.
Common mistake.
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Just as "dove" can be both a noun and a verb, "dive" has the same quality. Need I give a definition of "dive" as a noun?
vicki
"Dove" is a little white bird, a noun.
"Dived" is the past tense of dive, a verb.
It IS good and correct grammar. "I dove into the pool" is NOT.
Common mistake.
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