Sow (irregular verb)

This article is about the irregular verb 'to sow', meaning, of farmers or gardeners, etc, and sometimes of natural processes like wind, 'to scatter seed on the ground so that it may grow'. This verb is pronounced to rhyme with 'go' and 'toe', and is a homophone of sew. There is also advice on pronouncing some homographs at sow (disambiguation).

'To sow' is an irregular verb. Its forms are given here:

Base form	past tense	-ed participle	Remarks
sow	sowed	sown or sowed	The 'regular variant' of Class 2

This is one of the "the 250 or so irregular verbs" listed in Quirk 1985. The list "contains most of the irregular verbs in present-day English ... but is not meant to be exhaustive, particularly with regard to derivative verbs." AWE has copied most of the entries in that list. The verb 'to sow' belongs to Quirk's Class 2