The Grammar of English Grammars Part 74

Choose, chose, choosing, chosen.

Cleave,[278] cleft _or_ clove, cleaving, cleft _or_ cloven.

Cling, clung, clinging, clung.

Come, came, coming, come.

Cost, cost, costing, cost.

Cut, cut, cutting, cut.

Do, did, doing, done.

Draw, drew, drawing, drawn.

Drink, drank, drinking, drunk, _or_ drank.[279]

Drive, drove, driving, driven.

Eat, ate _or_ ~eat, eating, eaten _or_ eat.

Fall, fell, falling, fallen.

Feed, fed, feeding, fed.

Feel, felt, feeling, felt.

Fight, fought, fighting, fought.

Find, found, finding, found.

Flee, fled, fleeing, fled.

Fling, flung, flinging, flung.

Fly, flew, flying, flown.

Forbear, forbore, forbearing, forborne.

Forsake, forsook, forsaking, forsaken.

Get, got, getting, got _or_ gotten.

Give, gave, giving, given.

Go, went, going, gone.

Grow, grew, growing, grown.

Have, had, having, had.

Hear, heard, hearing, heard.

Hide, hid, hiding, hidden _or_ hid.

Hit, hit, hitting, hit.

Hold, held, holding, held _or_ holden.[280]

Hurt, hurt, hurting, hurt.[281]

Keep, kept,[282] keeping, kept.

Know, knew, knowing, known.

Lead, led, leading, led.

Leave, left, leaving, left.

Lend, lent, lending, lent.

Let, let, letting, let Lie,[283] lay, lying, lain.

Lose, lost, losing, lost.

Make, made, making, made.

Meet, met, meeting, met.

Outdo, outdid, outdoing, outdone.

Put, put, putting, put.

Read, r~ead, reading, r~ead.

Rend, rent, rending, rent.[284]

Rid, rid, ridding, rid.

Ride, rode, riding, ridden _or_ rode.

Ring, rung _or_ rang, ringing, rung.

Rise, rose, rising, risen.

Run, ran _or_ run, running, run.

Say, said, saying, said.[285]

See, saw, seeing, seen.

Seek, sought, seeking, sought.

Sell, sold, selling, sold.

Send, sent, sending, sent.

Set, set, setting, set.

Shed, shed, shedding, shed.

Shoe, shod, shoeing, shod.[286]

Shoot, shot, shooting, shot.

Shut, shut, shutting, shut.

Shred, shred, shredding, shred.

Shrink, shrunk _or_ shrank, shrinking, shrunk _or_ shrunken.

Sing, sung _or_ sang,[287] singing, sung.

Sink, sunk _or_ sank, sinking, sunk.

Sit, sat, sitting, sat.[288]

Slay, slew, slaying, slain.

Sling, slung, slinging, slung.

Slink, slunk _or_ slank, slinking, slunk.

Smite, smote, smiting, smitten _or_ smit.

Speak, spoke, speaking, spoken.

Spend, spent, spending, spent.

Spin, spun, spinning, spun.

Spit, spit _or_ spat, spitting, spit _or_ spitten.

Spread, spread, spreading, spread.

Spring, sprung _or_ sprang, springing, sprung.

Stand, stood, standing, stood.

Steal, stole, stealing, stolen.

Stick, stuck, sticking, stuck.

Sting, stung, stinging, stung.

Stink, stunk _or_ stank, stinking, stunk.

Stride, strode _or_ strid, striding, stridden _or_ strid.[289]

Strike, struck, striking, struck _or_ stricken.

Swear, swore, swearing, sworn.

Swim, swum _or_ swam, swimming, swum.

Swing, swung _or_ sw.a.n.g, swinging, swung.

Take, took, taking, taken.

Teach, taught, teaching, taught.

Tear, tore, tearing, torn.

Tell, told, telling, told.

Think, thought, thinking, thought.

Thrust, thrust, thrusting, thrust.

Tread, trod, treading, trodden _or_ trod.

Wear, wore, wearing, worn.

Win, won, winning, won.

Write, wrote, writing, written.[290]

REDUNDANT VERBS.

A _redundant verb_ is a verb that forms the preterit or the perfect participle in two or more ways, and so as to be both regular and irregular; as, _thrive, thrived_ or _throve, thriving, thrived_ or _thriven_. Of this cla.s.s of verbs, there are about ninety-five, beside sundry derivatives and compounds.