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Post by oshun on Sept 23, 2008 22:27:51 GMT -6
Is there any preference between "had kneeled" and "had knelt" or kneeled and knelt in the simple past tense?
I always want to say knelt, but I see lots of other people use kneeled.
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Post by Darth Fingon on Sept 23, 2008 22:56:04 GMT -6
American vs British here.
British tends toward irregular verb conjugation (knelt) while American favours the regular (kneeled).
British
I knelt
I have knelt
I had knelt
American
I kneeled
I have kneeled
I had kneeled
Both are correct, dependent upon your dialect of preference.
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Post by DrummerWench on Sept 23, 2008 23:07:24 GMT -6
kneeled vs. kneltI think this is one of those verbs that are in transition from strong to weak, like, umm, several which don't immediately come to mind. Also knelt sounds more old-fashioned & kneeled more modern to me. Hmm. dive, dived, dovecreep, creeped, creptetc. So I guess you could use the one you like better. 
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Post by oshun on Sept 26, 2008 7:08:33 GMT -6
Hmmm. Thanks for the input everyone. I missed these responses because for some reason my bookmark didn't work.
Kneeled sounded weird to me and I am unfortunately very American.
Still, my wanting "knelt" might have been a odd regionalism also, except that I noticed the "kneeled" in something Pandemonium wrote and she and I grew up in the same part of the U.S. which caused me to start thinking about it. I didn't think it was wrong, I knew I had seen it a lot, but wondered why did it sounded so weird to me.
I just can't write "kneeled" and feel the least bit natural, so I personally will stick with "knelt" for now. I did a lot of kneeling in my childhood--ten years of Catholic schools with church before school every day! So it is a word I that I've used a lot.
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