Is 'Texted' correct grammar?

Grammar is the system of a language, which people sometimes describe as the "rules" of a language.  But, in fact, no language has rules.  Language, in general, was started by people making sounds which evolved into words, phrases and sentences.  No commonly-spoken language usually requires a fixed rule.

Verb tense errors occur when we use the wrong verb tense and are a common grammatical mistake.  The verb tense tells the reader of our sentences when the action is taking place, in the past, the present or the future.  Some examples of verb tense errors include, "I go to the store and I bought milk."

English grammar is the way in which meanings are encoded into wordings in the English language.  This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences, right up to the structure of the whole text.  There are historical, social, cultural and regional variations of English.

Incorrect verb forms, cause students often find it difficult to use the correct verb form when combining with another verb.  In English, the auxiliaries have and had are always used with past participle forms.  Do, does and did are always used with infinitives.

It is as if the verb phrase puts on the costume of a noun, adjective or adverb and plays the role of a part of speech other than itself.  Any verb that is preceded by the word 'to' is an infinitive.  Here are some examples, 'to love, to eat, to run, to believe, to follow, to laugh, to stare and to wonder.'

A grammatical error is a term used in prescriptive grammar to describe an instance of faulty, unconventional, or controversial usage, such as a misplaced modifier or an inappropriate verb tense.  Also called a usage error, which is a comparison of grammatical error with correctness.

Certain pairs or groups of words are confusing because they are similar but have different meanings.  A review of the following homonyms can be used to avoid appearing lazy or uninformed and infusing our writing with more bad grammatical examples.  It's/Its, It's is a contraction meaning It is or It has.  It is a possessive pronoun.

An infinitive is a phrase, consisting of the word to and the basic form of a verb, that functions as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.  A subject, an infinitive can constitute the subject of a sentence.

The infinitive form of a verb is the verb in its basic form.  It is the version of the verb which will appear in the dictionary.  The infinitive form of a verb is usually preceded by two (e.g., to run, to dance, to think).  The infinitive form is not always preceded by to.

Most non-infinite verbs found in English are infinitives, participles and gerunds. They sometimes are called verbals, but that term has traditionally applied only to participles and gerunds.  One or more nonfinite verbs may be associated with a finite verb in a finite clause, the elements of a verb catena, or verb chain.

The past tense has been used as a text is considered as a proper word.   Although I would never consider myself an English professor or scholar, every time I hear the word from a news media professional, I cringe in horror.  "I'm I an alien?", I sometimes think to myself.  If these people are using this word, they must be right, the problem must be with me.  But is it me, really?

Neither can this word be really correct because "texted" is a word that has been made up since the introduction of text messaging made form cell phones.  But "I text him" is not grammatically correct either.  A better phrase would be, "He has sent me a text message."  "I texted him," sounds like a hybrid of the word 'text' and incorrect grammar.

Some online dictionaries have indicated that using texted as being incorrect.  This is mostly the past tense form texted because of the part-of-speech tagger tags all incidences of text as a noun, so it is difficult to find examples of text as a verb.

Recipient as a direct object, "And she hasn't texted me all day," which not only sounds incorrect, sounds like a clumsy use of the English language.  

Before, the introduction of telephone texting, it appears that like Lemmings every one has followed the incorrect usage without checking or conferring.   "A good critic will refer back to the text often," which in this usage the reference is to a text from a paragraph from an article or something, not a telephone text message. 

New verbs normally occur as regular verbs, so you'd expect past tense and past participle texted.  However, for reasons of phonology, some speakers may produce the past tense and past participle as text.  Only time will tell which form wins.  Perhaps they'll remain alternatives.