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The Past Tense of Freeze: Froze, Frozen, and When Frozen Becomes an Adjective

The Past Tense of Creep Is Crept — Except in One Phrase

The Past Tense of Close Is Closed — But the Word "Close" Has Two Pronunciations

The Past Tense of Sweep Is Swept — And Four Tightly Rhyming Words: Swept, Slept, Crept, Wept

The Past Tense of Swear: Swore and Sworn, Between an Oath and a Curse

Technical English for Mechanical Engineering: Vocabulary, Roadmap, and Self-Study Resources

The Past Tense of Stick Is Stuck — and the Vowel Ladder Stick, Stuck, Stack, Steak

The Past Tense of Split Is Still Split: Unchanging Verbs and the /spl/ Cluster Your Ear Clips

The Past Tense of Smile: Smiled, Why -ed Sounds Like /d/, and the Final D Your Ear Keeps Dropping

The Past Tense of Shoot Is Shot: How Vietnamese Ears Mix Up Shoot, Shot, and Short

Loved: Why Your Ears Skip the D at the End of "Love"

The Past Tense of Light: Lit or Lighted, and Why Highlight Never Becomes Highlit

Happen's Past Tense Is Happened — and Why You Keep Mishearing 'What Happened'

Dived or Dove? The Past Tense of Dive Is Turning Irregular

Deal's Past Tense Is Dealt — Pronounced /delt/, Not /diːlt/

Strike's Past Tense Is Struck — Here's Where Stricken Still Survives

Electrical English: Three Learning Levels, Vocabulary, and Free Resources

Smelled or Smelt? The Past Tense of Smell Depends on the Accent

Past Tense of Seek Is Sought: The Whole -ought Family and Three Words That Sound Just Like It


