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17A The past tense of certain verbs (with past participle)

Notę: These are the verbs used in the Examples and Exercises in 1 A. Not all of them are irregular verbs, sińce regular verbs (e.g.flow, lay, raise, stroke) can also cause difficulty through confusion with irregular ones {fly, lie, rise, strike). Pronunciation, when given, is in brackets (    ).

bet
bid	not bid, bade, bidden = ask (Fml)*
bound bied broadcast	(rhymes with find.found)
dealt dug fallen fed felt fled	(dealt rhymes with felt)
flowed	(rhymes with slow(edj)
flown	(flew, flown rhymes with blue/blew, blown)
forbidden	(forbade = [fa' baed] or. [fa’ beidj)
grown hit hurt	(rhymes with throw, threw, thrown)
laid	(laid rhymes with madę, not said)
quit	(rhymes with slit. split)
raised	([reiz(d)] = raysfd))
risen	([raizj, [raoz|, [rizn])
sawn/sawed	([so:(d)])
sought	(sought = [so:t| = sort)
sewn/sewed	(pronounced like sow below)
skidded slit	(shone rhymes with John)
sown/sowed	(sout = (sao| = so)
speeded up	not speed, spęd, spęd = hasten (Fml)

bet

bid

bound

bied

broadcast

deall

fed

felt

flcd

flowed

forbad(e)

grew

hit

hurt

laid

lay

sought

sewed

shed

skidded

slit

sowed speeded up

a notę on style marking, see i.

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