Past tense verbs
Why is ‘sat’ the past tense of ‘sit’ where as ‘fitted’ or ‘fit’ are considered (standard) past tense of ‘fit’. Based on examples like ‘speak - spoken’ , ‘spend - spent’ and ‘stand - stood’ would indicate the paste tense of ‘fit’ would indeed be ‘fat’ would it not?
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anonymous Why is ‘sat’ the past tense of ‘sit’ where as ‘fitted’ or ‘fit’ are considered (standard) past tense of ‘fit’. Based on examples like ‘speak - spoken’ , ‘spend - spent’ and ‘stand - stood’ would indicate the paste tense of ‘fit’ would indeed be ‘fat’ would it not? Yes, as you say, the past tense of 'fit' should be 'fat'.
- anonymous Why is ‘sat’ the past tense of ‘sit’ where as ‘fitted’ or ‘fit’ are considered (standard) past tense of ‘fit’.
- Based on examples like ‘speak - spoken’ , ‘spend - spent’ and ‘stand - stood’ would indicate the paste tense of ‘fit’ would indeed be ‘fat’ would it not?
- Yes, as you say, the past tense of 'fit' should be 'fat'.
- It works like this: Fortunately, all of the suitcases fat in the trunk of our car.
- We fat 45 people into the elevator, and none of them suffocated.
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anonymousWhy is ‘sat’ the past tense of ‘sit’ where as ‘fitted’ or ‘fit’ are considered (standard) past tense of ‘fit’. Based on examples like ‘speak - spoken’ , ‘spend - spent’ and ‘stand - stood’ would indicate the paste tense of ‘fit’ would indeed be ‘fat’ would it not?
Yes, as you say, the past tense of 'fit' should be 'fat'. It works like this:
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