Texted in a sentence

A correspondent wrote:

I hear people daily refering to text messages and I have been painfully aggrivated. When referring to texting in the past tense is it grammatically correct to say, “I texted yesterday” or “I text yesterday”.

I will hate if “texted” is correct.

Past tense of text pronunciation

It sounds so wrong.

I must admit I was not very supportive. The big point is that novel verbs — verbed nouns in particular — are almost invariably entirely regular in their inflection. Verbing has always weirded (not weird) language.

[Now there IS a pattern of phonological identity between the base form, the (non-3rd-sg) present-tense form, and the past tense (PST) and past-participle (PSP) forms — for a small number of mostly monosyllabic verbs in /-t/ and /-d/ (hit, bid) that have been around in the language for a long time.

Call these “bare past verbs” (it’s just a label, not a definition).

Some of these verbs have alternative PST/PSP forms without an affix (spit/spat, shit/shat), some of them have alernative PST/PSP forms wi

is it text or texted in past tense

is the word texted grammatically correct