The past participle of ring changes the central vowel to u. They rang their bike bells when they approached the park. The simple past tense of ring changes the central vowel to an a. They ring their bike bells when they approach the park. Like standard verbs, ring has no change of form or vowel in the present tense. Ring conjugates as ring (present tense), rang (simple past), and rung (past participle). Swam may be gaining a level of acceptance as such in spoken use but not in writing.In verb conjugation, a regular verb follows a simple, predictable pattern, such as print (present tense), printed (simple past), and printed (past particle): I print, you printed, and they have printed.Īn irregular verb is one that forms its simple past tense and past participle with a non-standard pattern. Swum is the standard past participle to be used with have. In casual speech, you might be forgiven for the slip-but not in written expression. The pattern is the a- u- i root vowel change from the past tense to the past participle to the infinitive.Īlthough you might see or hear swam used after a form of have, the construction doesn't follow the participle rule of irregular verbs and might draw criticism-at least by those knowledgeable about the rule. 2010Īdditionally, swum occasionally is heard in place of swam as the simple past-tense verb (which does not have an auxiliary verb, such as have)-for example, "I swum in the ocean every day while on vacation." Again, this use might be acceptable in some dialectal speech, but it is inadvisable in written or formal communication.Īccording to the rules for inflecting irregular verbs (the regular past tenses, in English, are usually formed by adding -ed- talked or walked-or -d or -t- placed or dealt), swam is the past tense and swum is the past participle, which follows the inflections of other irregulars, such as drank and drunk for drink, rang and rung for ring, and sang and sung for sing.
The Record Searchlight (Redding, California), 11 Sept. Suzanne Heim-Bowen, who's 52, has swimmed the English Channel three times. Swim isn't a regular verb and it will likely get flagged as an error if inflected as one. 2019 Avoid 'Swimmed'Įven swimmed has been used, but please avoid using this in speech and writing. Trisha Yearwood, quoted in The Tulsa (Oklahoma) World, 15 Sept. But I feel like I have swam around in the same circles with her because I have gotten a chance to sing with Don Henley and Aaron Neville and Emmylou Harris. The one person that I won't ever get to sing with is Linda Ronstadt because she doesn't sing anymore.
I have had a chance to sing with so many people that I admire. In some dialects, swam following have-though, by rule, incorrect-is not unheard of, especially in casual conversation. By the time she hits the shores of Kent, England late on Monday, it’s expected that Thomas will have swum non-stop for around 50 hours. During the 2000 Olympic final, 15-year-old Michael Phelps had swum his first Olympic final, placing 5th. "More people probably swam last week than have swum in the past decade," says Daniel Start, the author of several Wild Swimming guides to finding the best places for a dip across the UK and beyond. There is also the future perfect, which expresses action that will be completed by a specified time in the future and consists of the past participle preceded by usually will have.
#Past tense of ring plus#
The past perfect denotes action that was completed at or before a past time spoken of its form is had plus the past participle. The present perfect denotes action that began in the past and is linked to the present its construction is have or has followed by the past participle. The perfect tenses, which indicate action completed at the time of speaking or at a time spoken of, consist of a form of have plus the verb's past participle, which, in this case, is swum. The rules of grammar do chime with the statement.
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