I just hope the person who wrote “this particular error is unforgivable” doesn’t actually think writers care about her forgiveness. For one thing, their comments have several grammatical mistakes for another thing, how can any rational person get that upset about “correct” usage? I guess they don’t skim Google news or BBC news once in a while to see what’s happening around the world. I can’t tell if the first two people leaving comments are agreeing with Maeve Maddox’s examples or if they’re attempting to be humorous-not that humor can’t be serious. I don’t know how many times I’ve bit my tongue to stopped myself from corrected those verb-forms mistaken people makes. “This glass is broke”– undoubtedly because somone has broke it and bit for bitten. Two that bug me regularly are broke for broken, especially in the adjective form, i.e. I know Maeve has just picked some examples of this issue but it really is a pandemic. “Have went”, however, is so egregious that it’s hard to believe any native-English speaker would utter it. The use of rang or swam or drank where rung, swum or drunk belong is so common it actually marks the “normal” from the exceptionally well-spoken. I also think there are degrees of these crimes. But I think for native English speakers, this particular error is unforgivable. Obviously, for people who are not native English speakers, I can forgive a lot, as I would hope they would forgive me if I had to learn a new language at this point in my life. It just sounds incredibly uneducated, careless and childish for people to talk that way, like a 2-year-old who has not yet learned the rules of our language. I’m sorry, I hate to be a stickler for these things because there are people who just don’t care and think I’m an old fuddy duddy. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Common Mistakes category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:Ĥ Responses to “Verb Mistakes #11: Fall, Ring, and Go” INCORRECT: Economists: first warning bell has went off for Latvia’s competitiveness.- Baltic News Network.ĬORRECT: Economists: first warning bell has gone off for Latvia’s competitiveness. INCORRECT: Images of Aylin lying face down on a beach have went viral sparking a heated debate over the EU ethics in handling the refugee crisis that the continent has seen in the past few months.- Independent.mkĬORRECT: Images of Aylin lying face down on a beach have gone viral sparking a heated debate over the EU ethics in handling the refugee crisis that the continent has seen in the past few months. INCORRECT: The final bell has rang for an afterschool program that parents, school officials, nonprofits and civic leaders say has been vital to sustaining healthy communities for the past 15 years.- Sun Community News.ĬORRECT: The final bell has rung for an afterschool program that parents, school officials, nonprofits and civic leaders say has been vital to sustaining healthy communities for the past 15 years. INCORRECT: Go to the restroom before the bell rings, once the final bell has rang you cannot go to the restroom until the class change.-Math teacher’s rules.ĬORRECT: Go to the restroom before the bell rings, once the final bell has rung you cannot go to the restroom until the class change. INCORRECT: Tunisia has fell scoreless to open another quarter here and were forced to use another time out to cool off the Argentinian shooters.- Bleacher Report.ĬORRECT: Tunisia has fallen scoreless to open another quarter here and were forced to use another time out to cool off the Argentinian shooters. Political commentator, Splice Today.ĬORRECT: Really, this is an ostensibly bright middle-aged man, who at one time was sky-high on the journalistic pecking order, but clearly has fallen on hard times. INCORRECT: Really, this is an ostensibly bright middle-aged man, who at one time was sky-high on the journalistic pecking order, but clearly has fell on hard times. A common error with these verbs is to use the simple past in place of the past participle. That means that their forms must be memorized. The verbs fall, ring, and go are irregular. Verb Mistakes #11: Fall, Ring, and Go By Maeve Maddox
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