Can you name the past tense forms of the verbs below?

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Past Tense Blitz Quiz

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Created Dec 5, 2011 in Language
Featured Mar 16, 2013
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	DeliciousPoop:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:10 GMT		7 points
	fun.. but i wish they included some of the common trap ones that people usually mess up

	DeliciousPoop:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:12 GMT		0 points
	i meant like bring, sneak lay/lie etc... i still see people using sneaked and brung, etc.

	Ubbiebubbie:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:20 GMT		37 points
	I definitely tried "thunk," and upon not getting it correct, really had to thunk about it for longer than I should have had to.

	sillyperson:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:31 GMT		33 points
	The only challenge here is how fast you can type.

	Akatsiya:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:32 GMT		77 points
	This quiz shows me how hard it must be to learn English.

	ereadalot:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:33 GMT		65 points
	Once again, I am reminded of how glad I am I never had to learn English as a second language.

	cavaliergirl18:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:33 GMT		49 points
	I now have much more sympathy for those whose first language isn't English.

	irishailish:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:48 GMT		4 points
	English was my second language to Irish but it was OK because most people around me spoke it on a day-to-day basis. It is definitely a hard one to learn though, the grammar is fairly intense.

	Headers2304:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 19:53 GMT		0 points
	Sheldon Cooper - the reason I knew 'forbade'. :)

	Meltha:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 20:00 GMT		8 points
	For one moment I thought you tried to sneak in a regular verb with tear, since I pronounced it to rhyme with fear and an eye can tear (past tense: teared). But, nope, obviously your were going with tear rhyming with care. English really is weird.

	Acronicta:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 20:12 GMT		4 points
	We learned the irregular verbs by heart as an alphabetical list, all three tenses in row. Do did done, go went gone... With pop quizzes, of course. A lot like learning the multiplication table: quite cost-efficient, really, and once you learn it, it stays. A bit tedious, yes, but hardly head-scratch inducing - unlike English pronunciation!

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	SharonRA:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 20:43 GMT		6 points
	always was a grammar geek...and this was fun....Make another one, really hard ones! Good job.

	opusthepenguin:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:07 GMT		8 points
	I thought you were wrong on "swung," but apparently I'm the illiterate around here. Most dictionaries don't mention "swang," even as an alternative. The OED does, but with the word "rarely" right before it. I'm clinging to that. I'm right, just too rare for you folks.

	nadivereb:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:10 GMT		1 point
	My relationship with these is like the one with the neighbor's dog. At first, I hated them for not acting normally, and though by now I have grown quite fond of them, they can still annoy the hell out of me sometimes.

	opusthepenguin:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:11 GMT		8 points
	@Meltha: Good point on "teared up." Might be worth it for the quizmaker to include a bonus answer for "teared" specifying the past tense of "tear" as in "I tear a piece of paper."

	bostonbeliever:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:11 GMT		3 points
	English is such a terribly organized language, ahaha.

	Tom_q:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:24 GMT		5 points
	What acronicta said... These are not the difficult part of learning English. The difficult part is the pronunciation, which can be anything at all, regardless of how words are spelled.

	AKAPseudonym:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:30 GMT		3 points
	@DeleciousPoop Generally speaking Sneaked is the preferred past tense of sneak. Lots of grammar Nazis get all bent out of shape about 'snuck.' In fact my spellchecker just flagged it.

	peterpan55:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 21:49 GMT		6 points
	I actually had to pause on "do." I'm a native English speaker. Shame.

	mrmanheim:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 22:06 GMT		5 points
	this is merely a typing quiz....when I saw how many and how much time, I figured it would be this way. Nothing challeging or in need of retyping, but alas I finish in the lower half

	Wren25:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 22:10 GMT		6 points
	Please can we have more time. I don't have a problem with the language, just my (in)ability to type!!

	BonnieH:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 22:28 GMT		2 points
	I was trucking along with no problems until I hit spread...sneaky! :) It made me pause, but I still finished with plenty of time left.

	Remedial:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 22:33 GMT		1 point
	Technically 'span' is the active past for 'spin' - the wheels span on the gravel ... 'spun' is the passive form - the wheels were spun on the gravel by ... Compare to drink - drank -drunk (I drank it, it was drunk by me)

	mrdannydoodah:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 22:59 GMT		3 points
	I was gonna say what Remedial did, but less educatedly, in that span, not spun, should probably be the answer for spin.

	SteelyMatt:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 23:22 GMT		2 points
	Enjoyable! Would have loved to have seen a couple that I have gotten stares from other when using: underwent and forsook.

	14dedeol:	Mar 16th, 2013 at 23:38 GMT		2 points
	I feel bad for all the ESL students. Learning another language is hard enough, but English has so many annoying irregulars :)

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	EmYanks2001:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 00:24 GMT		1 point
	i did amazingly well and good timing till i hit forbid :/

	mrsiriustab:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 00:42 GMT		3 points
	If the maker really wanted to be mean, he would have included a normal verb form, like Sporcle/Sporcled.

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	hellofromUK:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 01:31 GMT		3 points
	I would accept both 'span' and 'spun' for the past tense of spin, as actually both are correct. Americans invariably use 'spun' yet English use either 'span' or 'spun'. For example, J K Rowling used 'span' in her English edition Harry Potter books, but it was changed to 'spun' for the American version.

	PhilThePain:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 01:37 GMT		2 points
	Got caught on paid. Kept trying "payed" haha got it eventually though

	ari18:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 02:18 GMT		7 points
	@Remedial: "Span" is not in Merriam-Webster, and it is listed as a rare/archaic form in the British version of OED (at least the one I have). I think people just say it because they analogize to words like "drink" et al., but it isn't considered standard. Of course if people like you keep saying it, it could become standard someday!

	mattzaliar:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 02:18 GMT		3 points
	The timing doesn't favour a drunk me at 3am. Otherwise it's a fun quizzlet

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	maficsam:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 04:46 GMT		-2 points
	So if workers go on strike, is the past tense still struck?

	Ruddly:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 06:48 GMT		1 point
	Another typing challenge disguised as a quiz. The answers were not hard, I just can't type fast enough.

	churchgeek:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 09:04 GMT		2 points
	@maficsam - IME yes. (I'm from a labor town - Detroit.) Most people avoid it by saying the workers "went on strike" or "were on strike."

	shakescene:	Mar 17th, 2013 at 09:48 GMT		3 points
	When Adam delved And Eve span, Who was then The gentleman? Are you seriously going to attempt to tell me that something from John Ball, the Lollards and the Peasants' Revolt isn't current, contemporary English? ;-)