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Hit, Hit, Hit: Same Word, Three Tenses — and Why "Hit It" Sounds Like "Hid It"

Gave or Given: The Past Tense of Give, and How One N Decides the Sentence

Drank or Drunk? The Past Tense of Drink and the Trap of Drunk Meaning Intoxicated

Built, Not Builded: The Past Tense of Build and English's Hardest Consonant Cluster

Break, Broke, Broken: Why "I'm Broke" Doesn't Mean You're Broken

Past Tense of "Talk": Talked, the /t/ Ending, and Talk vs. Tell

Stood, Not Standed: The Past Tense of Stand (and Understand)

Money and Time: Spend's Past Tense, and 3 Verbs People Confuse It With

Send's Past Tense Is Sent — and Americans Drop the T

The Past Tense of Sell Is Sold — but Sale Is Never a Verb

Saw or Seen? The Past Tense of See — and Three Words That Sound Just Like It

Rose or Raised? The Past Tense of Rise — and the Line Everyone Crosses

The Past Tense of Make: Made Does Double Duty, and Where It Parts Ways With Do

Got vs Gotten: How Accent and Meaning Decide the Past Tense of Get

The Past Tense of Drive: Drove, Driven, and the Pattern It Shares With Ride, Write

The Past Tense of Catch Is Caught: Silent GH and Three Words That Sound Alike

The Past Tense of Be: Was, Were, Been, and the Weak Sounds That Swallow Half Your Sentence

The Past Tense of Lose Is Lost — Plus 4 Words It Gets Mixed Up With

The Past Tense of Hear Is Heard: Nailing the Sound Between Hurt and Hard


