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    6 months ago

    hi 👋

    just fyi:
    “teach” is one of those words in English that has a different suffix for it’s past-tense: it is “taught”.
    Eg. “They taught me to sew.”
    “teached” is improper.

    Note: not to be confused with “taut” which is pronounced the same.

    :)

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      6 months ago

      I had originally wrote taught but i confused it with “pulling something tight” so i went with what would get the point across even if it was wrong.

      Edit: fixed it now

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        6 months ago

        No judgment, I think its interesting the little high-stakes decisions we make like this though.

        “Oh no which spelling is it? Is there time to search it up? Oh no my train of thought is fading! Send send send!”

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      6 months ago

      Thank you for pointing out a mistake in a very polite way while being informative. You deserve an applesauce for making a better internet 👏.

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      6 months ago

      The past tense of teach doesn’t have a suffix-- it’s just the past (preterite) conjugation of an irregular verb. Also you don’t need the apostrophe in its or the hyphen in past tense.