Two For the Price of OneThese brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which word from Group B can be added to Group A? Why?
Group A: bear, fall, grind, lie
Group B: drop, measure, play, see, tape, walk
Each word in Group A is an irregular verb whose past tense is also the present tense of a regular verb. For a regular verb, the past tense is simply the present tense with a "D" or "ED" or "_ED" added on its end (drop, dropped; measure, measured; play, played; tape, taped; walk, walked). With an irregular verb, the past tense is not achieved in those ways.
The past tense of BEAR is BORE; the past tense of BORE is BORED.
The past tense of FALL is FELL; the past tense of FELL is FELLED.
The past tense of GRIND is GROUND; the past tense of GROUND is GROUNDED.
The past tense of LIE is LAY; the past tense of LAY is LAID.
The past tense of SEE is SAW; the past tense of SAW is SAWED.
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