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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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shrink, shrank, shrunk

0I am having trouble finding information on the tenses of 'shrink'. The original interest was a passing question of whether "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" was grammatically correct or not. It's become something sicker than that at this point. Please help. 0-
  

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0 I think either are grammatically correct.0-
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0 Here is something from another site:02br
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00Present = I/you/we/you/they shrink, he/she shrinks02br
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00Imperfect = I/you/we/you/they/he/she shrank02br
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00Perfect = I/you/we/you/they have shrunk, he/she has shrunk0-
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0 Here is a link that has lots of info on the tenses of shrink. 0500230hrefhttp://www.writingenglish.com/cverbs/shrink.htm
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0"I shrunk the kids" is correct.02br
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00 There are a few verbs that can take 01u00alternate02u00 forms (either 01b00a02b00 or 01b00u02b00) in the simple past. The higher in the list the verb occurs (below), the higher the probability that the 01b00a02b00 form will be used -- in my
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What you've posted is most certainly incorrect; the grammatical usage is the following: "Honey, I shrank the kids."

If "shrunk" were to be used correctly, it would be "Honey, I've (or 'I have') shrunk the kids," or "Honey, I've shrunken the kids."

"Shrank" is the past tense, of "shrink," and "shrunk" is the past participle (used with the auxiliary
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AnonymousWhat you've posted is most certainly incorrect; the grammatical usage is the following: "Honey, I shrank the kids."
Just because you say so? Have you researched this?

Posting in bold is not necessary. People are not more likely to believe you if you post in bold.

CJ
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I am a British English teacher, as well as a bit of a grammar buff. I have to say that I thought 'anonymous' was correct, ie: shrink, shrank, (have/has) shrunk. However, having checked a couple of dictionaries and grammar books, I have discovered to my surprise that the alternative form ("I shrunk that sweater in the wash yesterday") is also allowable. I suspect that it is used mo
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so shrunken is a correct form? is it more appropriate or just as appropriate as shrunk?
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Anonymousthere are no alternative forms for the verbs sing,ring or swim. The past simple tense of these is definitely: sang rang swam.
That's why they are not listed in my list (above) of verbs which do have alternate forms.
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