Meyer Discovers the Past Tense

Language development in young children is fascinating. I recently became aware of Meyer's grasp of the past tense when I noticed that he says "falled" instead of "fell" and "comed" instead of "came." Obviously, he's not just repeating what he's heard us say; he's applying the "add ed" rule to all verbs, regardless of whether they have a regular past-tense form. The exceptions are "was/were," "had," and "did," which are so ubiquitous that Meyer learned them as distinct, individual words, instead of as past-tense forms of other words.

Read what Meyer has to say on the subject.