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Lex1982 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Verb inquiry

I had an argument with some of my coworkers and I was wondering if anyone could give me a decisive answer to this question. What is the passive past of to pour? No, this is not a joke and it's not to make a funny. When I said it initially, it came quite naturally to me as pourn -I work in a coffee shop and was anthropomorphizing a pot of coffee in the first person. I can't find the full conjugation online. Can someone help?

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I have never seen the past participle of pour expressed as pourn , but I think it could be useful in certain situations. The principle parts are regular: pour, pouring, poured, poured.

— Philip

  • I have never seen the past participle of pour expressed as pourn , but I think it could be useful in certain situations.
  • The principle parts are regular: pour, pouring, poured, poured.
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I have never seen the past participle of pour expressed as pourn, but I think it could be useful in certain situations. The principle parts are regular: pour, pouring, poured, poured.
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Pour is a regular verb - the past is poured.
Here are some examples with "pour"

Present, active voice: The water pours out of the fountain.
Present, passive voice: The wine is poured slowly out of the bottle.

Past, active: He poured ice water out of the jug.
Past, passive voice: Coffee was poured out of the tall Turkish urn and into tiny cups.
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****, I hate being wrong. Thanks.
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