Hi! Alexander,   
      
   On 14/07/2015 10:54 PM, you wrote:   
      
    ak> Is "tear" a verb? Should it be "teared" then? Or at least "tears"?   
      
   How do you end up with a torn piece of paper, for example.  It must have gone   
   through a tear process.  A typical usage could be, "I could try to tear out a   
   page from the phone book or use my pocket knife to do a neater job of it".   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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