_Present._ _Primary Præterite._ _Secondary Præterite._ Cleave Clove [55]Clave. Steal Stole [55]Stale. Speak Spoke Spake. Swear Swore Sware. Bear Bore Bare. Tear Tore [55]Tare. Wear Wore [55]Ware. Break Broke Brake. Get Got [55]Gat. Tread Trod Trad. Bid Bade Bid. Eat Ate Ete. § 302. The following verbs have only a single form for the præterite,-- _Present._ _Præterite._ | _Present._ _Præterite._ | Fall Fell. | Forsake Forsook. Befall Befell. | Eat Ate. Hold Held. | Give Gave. Draw Drew. | Wake Woke. Slay Slew. | Grave Grove. Fly Flew. | Shape Shope. Blow Blew. | Strike Struck. Crow Crew. | Shine Shone. Know Knew. | Abide Abode. Grow Grew. | Strive Strove. Throw Threw. | Climb Clomb. Let Let. | Hide Hid. Beat Beat. | Dig Dug. Come Came. | Cling Clung. Heave Hove. | Swell Swoll. Weave Wove. | Grind Ground. Freeze Froze. | Wind Wound. Shear Shore. | Choose Chose. ---- Quoth. | Stand Stood. Seethe Sod. | Lie Lay. Shake Shook. | See Saw. Take Took. | § 303. An arrangement of the preceding verbs into classes, according to the change of vowel, is by no means difficult, even in the present stage of the English language. In the Anglo-Saxon, it was easier still. It is also easier in the provincial dialects, than in the literary English. Thus, when _Break_ is pronounced _Breek_, _Bear_ -- _Beer_, _Tear_ -- _Teer_, _Swear_ -- _Sweer_, _Wear_ -- _Weer_, as they actually are by many speakers, they come in the same class with,-- _Speak_ pronounced _Speek_, _Cleave_ -- _Cleeve_,