A young child tells his grandmother that "he goed to town." The child's application of the normal past tense to the irregular verb "to go" illustrates that the child is attempting to use

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This illustrates the child's attempt to use transformation rules, which involve applying general grammatical rules to words, in this case, adding "-ed" to make the past tense, even to irregular verbs where this rule does not apply.

A Young Child Tells His Grandmother That "He Goed to Town