Grinded has become a hard nosed sports term: it is often said of football players, particularly running backs, that 'they grinded it out today.'ĭreamed or Dreamt? Dreamt is more popular in Britain, but both of these forms can function as the past tense. Ground or grinded ? Like creeped above, grinded is gaining acceptance over the traditional past tense ground because of the other uses of grinded. Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading Technically, it should be Honey, I Shrank the Kids. The movie title gets the past tenses confused: shrunk is past participle and shrank is simple past. Shrunk or shrank ? A grammar maven's least favorite movie? Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

In other words, people more often say 'a knitted hat' than a 'knit hat.'Īs an Amazon Associate and a Affiliate, QDT earns from qualifying purchases. Knitted is more popular in its adjectival use. Knit or knitted? Like plead, these two forms are both accepted nowadays and are in a virtual statistical dead heat in terms of usage. There may be more going on here, because 'he pled guilty' sounds much better than 'he pleaded guilty,' but 'she pled with the judge' sounds awful to many ears, while pleaded sounds fine there. Pleaded or pled? The grammar guides geared towards lawyers were once insistent that pleaded was the correct form, but the persistence of pled has caused the usually adamant attorneys to accept both. Hoist or hoisted? Hoist as a past tense form is what linguists would call a zero-derived form: nothing changes on the surface, but on some level it has to be marked as 'past.' There was a verb hoise used primarily in nautical context, and it is thought that its past tense, hoist, was mistaken for a root. Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help

Verbs and their past tense