Abstract
The article sets out to trace the origin of the grammatical rule that strong verbs should distinguish between past tense and past participle forms. While being fully expressed for the first time in Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar (1762), the rule neither originated from Lowth himself, nor did it reflect his own usage as found in his private—still unpublished—letters. This puts Lowth and his grammar into a different perspective from that currently held by modern linguists.
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