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Topic: Hanged/ hung |
12 December 2002 |
Hanged and hung are both past participle forms of the verb hang.
However, they have different meanings. This is not the case of American and British English.
The past and past participle form of the verb to hang is hung.
Hang-hung-hung means to attach something with a rope or to stick something,
let's say, on a wall. To hang has many other different meanings, but we won't go into that now.
For example:
The pictures of their ancestors are hung on the wall.
Please hang up the towel so that they dry properly.
This morning, you hung your wet socks in the bathroom.
The coats are hung on the hook on the door.
We use hanged as past and past participle of
to hang when it means to kill someone by tying a rope around the neck of the person.
For example:
Up to the earlier this century, thieves had been hanged.
He hanged himself last night after his wife left him.
Witches in the medieval period were either burnt or hanged.
Note :
Hang hanged hanged = to kill someone
Hang hung hung = to attach something and other meanings
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Exercise: Hanged and Hung |
| Directions :Complete the sentences with the words that best fit the context.
Make sure you use the correct forms of the verbs. |
 1.I feel so embarrassed that I will go home and _______ myself under the windowpane.
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| 2.Edith _______ up the Christmas lights on the tree. |
| 3.Her son likes the angel _______ on the window. |
| 4.In the Wild West, cattle thieves used to be _______. |
| 5.You can _______ your coat on the hook by the door. |
| 6._______ was a legal form of punishment in many states throughout America. |
| 7.Why dont you _______ your laundry in front of the heater so that your clothes dry more quickly? |
| 8.Let me be _______ if I ever lied to you. |
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