\u201cIn the past, they have not went if it was out of the country.\u201d So spoke a poised, informed young woman last week on a political talk show. And this was no anomaly. Abuse of irregular verbs is sweeping the nation\u2014so much so that some readers will see nothing wrong with the sentence quoted above.<\/p>\n
So take a moment to take today\u2019s irregular-verb quiz. The answers are directly below the test.<\/p>\n
Irregular-Verb Pop Quiz<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>. The child took the portrait and ___ it on the wall.<\/p>\n A) hung 2<\/strong>. You have clearly ___ me for someone else.<\/p>\n A) mistook 3<\/strong>. I have ___ relatives who offer criticism but no support.<\/p>\n A) outgrew 4<\/strong>. I would have probably ___ the sweetest dessert.<\/p>\n A) chose 5<\/strong>. The last time we were together, we ___ all our favorite songs around the fire.<\/p>\n A) sing 6<\/strong>. He felt that his life had been cruelly ___ apart.<\/p>\n A) torn 7<\/strong>. This game has, despite its success, ___ a complete makeover.<\/p>\n A) underwent 8<\/strong>. Fred has ___ the lawn every Saturday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n A) mowed 9<\/strong>. A bee ___ her as soon as she opened the door.<\/p>\n A) stang 10<\/strong>. The public is ___ to leave the trail.<\/p>\n A) forbid <\/p>\n ANSWERS<\/strong><\/p>\n 1<\/strong>: A) hung<\/em><\/p>\n 2<\/strong>: C) mistaken<\/em><\/p>\n 3<\/strong>: B) outgrown<\/em><\/p>\n 4<\/strong>: B) chosen<\/em><\/p>\n 5<\/strong>: C) sang<\/em><\/p>\n 6<\/strong>: A) torn<\/em><\/p>\n 7<\/strong>: B) undergone<\/em><\/p>\n 8<\/strong>: C) A and B are both correct<\/em><\/p>\n 9<\/strong>: B) stung<\/em><\/p>\n 10<\/strong>: D) forbidden<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIn the past, they have not went if it was out of the country.\u201d So spoke a poised, informed young woman last week on a political talk show. And this was no anomaly. Abuse of irregular verbs is sweeping the nation\u2014so much so that some readers will see nothing wrong with the sentence quoted above. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verbs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grammarbook.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nB) hanged
\nC) A and B are both correct<\/p>\n
\nB) mistaking
\nC) mistaken
\nD) mistooken<\/p>\n
\nB) outgrown
\nC) outgrowed
\nD) outgrowing<\/p>\n
\nB) chosen
\nC) A and B are both correct<\/p>\n
\nB) sung
\nC) sang<\/p>\n
\nB) tore
\nC) toren
\nD) turn<\/p>\n
\nB) undergone
\nC) under went
\nD) under gone<\/p>\n
\nB) mown
\nC) A and B are both correct<\/p>\n
\nB) stung
\nC) sting<\/p>\n
\nB) forbad
\nC) forbade
\nD) forbidden<\/p>\n