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In support of this OED compares Old English uðleapan, "the technical word for the 'escaping' of a thief." However there is an Anglo-French aloper "run away from a husband with one's lover" (mid-14c.) which complicates this etymology perhaps it is a modification of the Middle Dutch word, with Old French es-, or it is a compound of that and Middle English lepen "run, leap" (see leap (v.)). Simple Past tense exercises are at the bottom Simple Past tense-Guide to Grammar Do 55 & 56, then 40 Irregular Verb Practice review and exercises at the. With this year 3 English worksheet, children write the past and present tense of verbs. Verb tenses tell us when the action happened. Present Continuous Tense He/She/It is leaping. An action verb is a word that describes an action, for example, jump, kick, eat, or think. Leap verb forms Conjugation of Leap Simple / Indefinite Present Tense He/She/It leaps. However, the two suffix variants are relatively equally preferred for forming past tense with user preference favouring the -ed suffix for bless, spell, spoil.
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Sense of "run away in defiance of parental authority to marry secretly" is 19c. leaped, leapt, or archaically lept or lope past tense of leap is leaped, leapt, or archaically lept or lope. 1590s, "to run off," probably from Middle Dutch (ont)lopen "run away," from ont- "away from" (from Proto-Germanic *und- which also gave the first element in until, from PIE root *ant- "front, forehead," with derivatives meaning "in front of, before") + lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan (source also of Old English hleapan see leap (v.)).