The simple past tense of the phrasal verb hang up is “hung up” (e.g., “He called yesterday, but I just hung up”).
On a related note, if you’re not sure whether you should use hung or hanged as the past participle or simple past form of the verb “hang;” “hung” is always correct, except when you’re referring to “death by hanging.”
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Some examples of the present perfect continuous tense are:
- I have been jogging every morning for the past month.
- She has been practicing the piano since she was a child.
- Shelly has been making money in the stock market recently.
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Use the perfect present continuous when discussing an action that started in the past and continues in the present moment or an action that has recently ended but has an effect on the present moment.
For example:
- The children have been building a sandcastle all morning. She has been exercising at the gym for an hour.
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The spelling of the plural form of the noun “scarf” is scarves or scarfs.
The standard spelling for the item of clothing you wear around your neck is scarves, but “scarfs” is also an acceptable alternative.
Scarfs is the standard spelling for technical uses of the word (e.g., to mean a part of a wooden joint).
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The past tense of read is pronounced [red]. Although it is spelled the same (read) for both the simple past tense and past participle.
It might help to remember that the pronunciation changes in the same way as the verb “lead,” meaning “go in front,” which changes from “lead” [leed] to “led” [led].
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The simple past tense of read is also spelled read, but instead of being pronounced [reed] it changes to [red]. This is also true for the past participle, used to form the perfect tenses and for the passive voice.
Read is an irregular verb, so it doesn’t add “-ed” to form the past tenses.
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No, “readed” is not a word. The irregular verb read has the simple past tense form and past participle read. Although it is spelled the same, it is pronounced differently.
The infinitive and present tense are pronounced [reed], and the past tense and past participle are pronounced [red].
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The past tense of the verb teach is taught. Teach is an irregular verb, so it doesn’t use the “-ed” ending for the past tenses.
Taught is both the simple past tense form and past participle. The past participle is used to form the perfect tenses (e.g., “I have taught English across the whole age range”) and the passive voice (e.g., “I think we have all been taught a lesson today”).
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No, “taughted” is not a word in standard English. The simple past tense form and past participle of “teach” is “taught.”
“Teach” is an irregular verb, so it doesn’t add “-ed” to the infinitive to form the past tenses.
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No, “teached” isn’t a word in standard English. The past tense of the verb teach is taught. Teach is an irregular verb, and taught is both the simple past tense form and past participle.
You might occasionally encounter “teached” used humorously or as part of a dialect. But it is incorrect in formal writing.
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