Friday, January 29, 2016
Every time you come across verbs that end in "th" like "goeth, "passeth", "changeth", etc, please know that they are old forms of simple present tense forms of verbs in English.
You have more of such words in the bible and if you ask me why, I would tell you that every language develops, as a matter of convention.
For English, that era was called Old English (OE) era, if you may know.
You often sing a song: "Since I was born, and now I am old, I have never seen the Lord changeth".
Sorry, that's a big blunder to make, with due regards for everyone that sings it that way.
CAUTION: The verb "changeth" is just an old form of "change+s".
So, substitute and see what blunder you have.
I beg to continue this lesson, soon.
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