Glossary

a building with very strong, tall walls

verbs for which the three forms are written and/or pronounced differently

Here are some common irregular verbs:

have - had - had

go - went - gone

am/are/is - was/were - been

get - got - got

come - came - come

write - wrote - written

buy - bought - bought

catch - caught - caught

eat - ate - eaten

bring - brought - brought

begin - began - began

fall - fell - fallen

say - said - said

see - saw - seen

take - took - taken

a tower with a powerful light that signals to ships they are approaching shallow waters or rocks

a set of words sometimes in the form of a poem that have magic powers

someone who buys things and then sells them for profit. Sometimes merchants travel to foreign lands to sell their goods and buy other things to bring and sell in their own countries.

verbs for which the 2nd and the 3rd form ends in "-ed"

the order in which tenses are used in a sentence or in a narrative

an imaginary line on which the past (towards left), the present (usually center) and the future (towards right) are represented

a part of speech that describes an action or a state of being

a wise man; someone who knows how to create magic