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Paradigms

So a "paradigm" is an example, especially an example of verb conjugation. If you ever studied Ancient Greek, your text book may have contained an appendix called "Paradigms". This appendix is then full of conjugation tables. Each table is a paradigm. Here is a paradigm of such a paradigm.

You see that conjugation in this language is fairly complex, and a beginning student definitely needs the help of these paradigms to conjugate verbs.

This example makes clear what a paradigm is: an example, especially one that serves as a pattern or model.

Compared to Ancient Greek, English is a simple language. It is possible to construct an English paradigm:

Present I, you, we, they walk
he, she, it walks
Past   walked
but it is fairly trivial. A student of English may well finish his study without the help of paradigms. This may be why the misconception about the meaning of the word "paradigm" is so widespread.

With help of these paradigms, you may create your own paradigms and impress your management.

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