What do you say when...THE GREAT DIVE GRAMMER THREAD

[landlocked]

Websters also has either dived or dove as being correct. I didn't know that. It looks like both Scubydoo and I learned something today. BTW, if you conjugate the verb to "swim" as swim swam and swum, how to you conjugate the verb to "dim"? Just currious.

 

[tchil01]

The past tense of Dive is "crying"... as in "Boo Hoo, I can't dive anymore..."

Ty

 

[ScubyDoo]

Originally posted by landlocked
Websters also has either dived or dove as being correct. I didn't know that. It looks like both Scubydoo and I learned something today

I said "dove" was right didnt I? Now that I think about it, I supposed "dived" could be used too. It just sounds funny.

Would you say "I flew to Bonaire" or "I flied to Bonaire"?
Same situation with dove and dived.

 

[fooks]

Us more educated folk say "I divded the wreck and found me some tires!!"


Its been a long day.

 

[dc4bs]

That's only because you're not used to it...

If you grew up and everyone around said it that way, it would sound perfectly natural.

"He stop in dog excrement and became so irate he spited!"

Kinda helps give you an inkling of an idea of why it's so hard to read old english documents, don't it?

 

[ScubaBurt]

Present Tense
I dive
You dive
We dive

Past Tense
I drink
You drink
We drink
Numerous Sol, Tecate, Coors, Icehouse, Bud. Take your choice.
What do you think?

 

[Rooster1]

It is the only past tense I have ever known.

 

[Bobb]

hmmmm....



GOT WET

 

[earlj]

swim swam swum
dive dove dumb

As in should have stayed in the water.

 

[Windknot]

Dive, which was orig. a weak verb, developed a past tense dove, prob. by analogy with verbs like drive, drove. Dove exists in some British dialects and has become the standard past tense esp. in speech in some parts of Canada. In the U.S. dived and dove are both widespread in speech as past tense and past participle, with dove less common than dived in the south Midland area, and dived less common than dove in the Northern and north Midland areas. In writing, the past tense dived is usual in British English and somewhat more common in American English. Dove seems relatively rare as a past participle in writing.

Someone actually had the TIME to go and research the origin of the past tense version of dive!!!!!