killed-s

Updated: May 3, 2025

Number is evidently felt by those who speak English as involving a necessary relation, otherwise there would be no reason to express the concept twice, in the noun and in the verb. Time also is clearly felt as a relational concept; if it were not, we should be allowed to say the farmer killed-s to correspond to the farmer kill-s.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech