310: To Be Oct 14, 2015
How is it that 'am' 'are' and 'is' are all forms of 'to be'‽ The form
used to be much closer, in Middle English, the verb used for we, ye, and
they was, 'ben', similar to the 'been' and 'being' still used in Modern
English. The variant forms like, 'am', 'is', (and also 'were', 'was'
&c.) are related to the Indo-European root, similar to the Latin,
'sum' 'es(t)', although the origin of 'are' is unknown.
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