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When 3-year-old edward's dad asked his son what he had done that day, edward replied, "i sawed two deer outside and goed to see them." these classic language mistakes are called?

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overregularization

Step-by-step explanation:

Overregularization is a classic language mistake of adding an "-ed" to the end of a word. For example "He hitted me."

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These simple language mistakes are known as grammar errors. Specifically, these grammar errors are word tense errors. In the above example, it was a past tense error wherein saw is already in its past tense so there is no need for an "ed" at the end. Also, "goed" should be "went" instead. 
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