Re: Where to find rules how English past tense and continuous tenses are formed?

Nathan Sanders <nsanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"4. If the verb ends in -s, -z, -x, -sh, and -ch, add -e before the -s
ending
pass/passes, buzz/buzzes, coax/coaxes, wash/washes, watch/watches"

Now you made me wonder if there are any English verbs [...]
derived from a French word with silent -s, -z, or -x.

"We rendezvoused at noon."

Excellent.

"Mark Sanford is going to have to come up with a different excuse next
time he rendezvous with his Argentine paramour [...]"

Merriam-Webster lists the verb form as "rendezvouses" /-vuz/,
the American Heritage Dictionary says it's "rendezvous" /-vuz/.

On the web, "he rendezvous" beats out "he rendezvouses".

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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