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Default Please help examples of strong and weak sounds in verbs

what does it mean by strong and weak sounds in verbs?

can i have some examples??
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Default Re: Please help examples of strong and weak sounds in verbs

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what does it mean by strong and weak sounds in verbs?

can i have some examples??
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1. Morphology
2. Meaning

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Originally Posted by Morphology
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), one of the two fairy-tale–collecting brothers from Germany who were also famous grammarians, chose the names strong verbs and weak verbs for the two dominant patterns of verbs in the Germanic languages. Those he called strong made their past tenses and past participles mainly by changing medial vowels, as do English begin, began, begun and drive, drove, driven. His weak verbs made their tense changes by adding various forms of the dental suffix, as in English study, studied, studied and bake, baked, baked.
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Verbs have a natural hierarchy, from strongest to weakest:

Doing (strongest)
Saying
Thinking or feeling
Being done to
Being (weakest)

This example should illustrate the hierarchy of verbs in reverse order (from weakest to strongest):

Jim was sick.
Jim was being made sick by the clam dip.
Jim felt sick.
"I feel sick," Jim said.
Jim vomited on the Persian rug.

The strongest verbs express actions in the real world. The weaker verbs express less real-world action. At the bottom are the being verbs which express either no action or very little.
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