Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 37/234 (April 1835). As You Like It, 4.1.Ī number of these forms survived more readily in Scotland and the North:īut our humbler home is yet a while on the earth, and of the earth in humbler strain it is that we would speak-though had Heaven made us a poet, we had sang to Tellus many a lofty hymn. … or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola. Report of the annual examination of the public schools, Boston, 1852.īefore this standardization, there was a good bit of variation in strong verbs with the umlaut paradigm i, a, u. I begun to study early, studied hard till the bell was rang, then I run all the way and come to school in season, and recited awl my lessons perfect. With the rapid expansion of compulsory education in the mid-19th century and the grammar books that accompanied it, rang as a participle, along with other now non-standard forms, was drilled out of American youth, as in this sentence a student was to correct: Owen, Counsels to Domesticks, Baltimore, 1844, 47. The bell was rang again, but there was no answer. The lady rang the bell to enquire the cause of it, but no answer. The peal conſiſted of 5184 changes, and was performed in three hours and 47 minutes, by the ſociety of Cumberland Youths. Leonard, Shoreditch, a compleat peal of caters, on Stedman's principle, being the ſecond production in that critical method. June 5, was rang at the pariſh church of St. In earlier centuries, however, this was not always the case:
In verb conjugation, a regular verb follows a simple, predictable pattern, such as print (present tense), printed (simple past), and printed (past particle): I print, you printed, and they have printed.Īn irregular verb is one that forms its simple past tense and past participle with a non-standard pattern.Today, was rang is considered a non-standard form since the accepted past participle of ring is rung. Ring conjugates as ring (present tense), rang (simple past), and rung (past participle). Like standard verbs, ring has no change of form or vowel in the present tense. They ring their bike bells when they approach the park. The simple past tense of ring changes the central vowel to an a. They rang their bike bells when they approached the park. The past participle of ring changes the central vowel to u. The past participle also includes the auxiliary verb have, has, or had depending on whether it is in the present, past, future, or conditional perfect. If they don’t answer the door soon, I will have rung the bell twice since this morning. If they don’t answer the door soon, she will have rung the bell twice since this morning. I would have rung the bell sooner if I had known they were leaving today. She would have rung the bell sooner if she had known they were leaving today.ġ. He the bell to get the students’ attention.Ģ. We the bell, but no one answered the door.ģ. She had the bell three times before I was near enough to hear it.Ĥ. By tomorrow, they will have the bell ten times to get the students’ attention.ĥ. Were you aware that the phone this morning?ġ. He rings the bell to get the students’ attention.Ģ. We rang the bell, but no one answered the door.ģ.
She had rung the bell three times before I was near enough to hear it.Ĥ. Re: “The bell already rang.” To me, a Brit, that doesn’t work, but… Were you aware that the phone rang this morning? By tomorrow, they will have rung the bell ten times to get the students’ attention.ĥ. …it seems to illustrate a possible conflict between what is ‘correct’ and a form used fairly commonly in the US. If the bell has already rung, that not only means that the event has happened, but that there is an ongoing effect, e.g. it’s now too late, or we’re now in lunch time, or (as opposed to “the bell rang occasionally, or at some point in the past, or just now, but without any change of situation). When the action changes the situation (e.g.
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