Principal Parts

In language learning, the principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms.

Famous quotes containing the words principal and/or parts:

    “The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.”
    —Jean Racine (1639–1699)

    “All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
    Whose body Nature is, and God the soul;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)