Monday, 18 January 2016
"spread" and "split"
Monday, January 18, 2016
May I have you tell me the past tense of "spread" and "split"?
Is it "spreaded" and "splitted", like you are likely to say?
No, please.
The past tense and past participle of these two verbs don't change in any case whatsoever.
You don't add "+ed" to them, like you, customarily, do to the regular verbs you know of.
Such verbs are called Irregular verbs.
Recall another of these type of verbs--"put".
Have you ever said "putted" as a past tense form? That's popular enough for you to note, isn't it?
Now, let me hear you say:
"spread/spread/spread"
"split/split/split"
e.g. I have spread the clothes on that wall (not "spreaded").
Yesterday, I split the money on me and gave to my friend and a cousin (not "splitted").
Kindly digest!
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