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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Criminal Sentence 552: Giving Birth to Good Spelling

From a book I'm reading:

"She had even born her lover twins."

"To bear" is a weird verb (I mean, irregular). Here are the tenses/forms:

I/you/they/we bear children.
He/she/it bears children.
I bore two children.
I have borne several children.

1 comment:

The Sentence Sleuth said...

"She had borne" or "She bore" is correct. "Borne" is the past participle and goes with an auxiliary verb such as "had."