forget, forgot, forgot
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Verb morphology
See also: the list of irregular verbs
The past tense and past participle of the verbs learn, spoil, spell (only in the word-related sense), burn, dream, smell, spill, leap, and others, can be either irregular (learnt, spoilt, etc.) or regular (learned, spoiled, etc.). British English allow both irregular and regular forms, but the irregular forms tend to be used more often by the British (especially by speakers using Received Pronunciation), and in some cases (learnt, smelt, leapt) are strongly preferred; dreamed is however commoner than dreamt in current British usage. The forms with -ed are preferred by many careful writers of English since they are regular verbs. In American English, the irregular forms are never or hardly ever used (except for leapt and smelt, which are occasionally found). Nonetheless, as with the "tre" words, the t endings are often found in older American texts. (Note that the two-syllable form learnèd /'lɜːnɪd/, usually written simply as learned, is still used as an adjective to mean "educated", or to refer to academic institutions, in both British English and American English.) Finally, the past tense and past participle of dwell and kneel are more commonly dwelt and knelt on both sides of the Atlantic, although dwelled and kneeled are widely used in the U.S. (but not in the UK).
Other verb past tense forms: Americans more frequently use the irregular forms fit, forecast, knit, lit, wed; the weak forms fitted, forecasted, knitted, lighted, wedded are more common in Commonwealth use. The distinction is, however, not rigorous as the Commonwealth forms are also found in American, and both lit and forecast are not only found in Commonwealth English, but are generally considered standard usage.
The past participle gotten is rarely used in modern British English (although it is used in some dialects), which generally uses got, except in old expressions such as ill-gotten gains. Furthermore, according to the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, "The form gotten is not used in British English but is very common in North American English, though even there it is often regarded as non-standard." In North America, most people who use gotten also use got, with gotten emphasising the action of acquiring, and got tending to indicate simple possession (Have you gotten it?, as an example). Interestingly, American English, but not British English, has forgot as a less common alternative to forgotten for the past participle of forget.
The past participle proven is frequently used in American English, although some speakers avoid it, and it remains proved in British English (except in adjectival use; and usage is different in Scots law).
American English further allows other irregular verbs, such as dive (dove) or sneak (snuck), and often mixes the preterite and past participle forms (spring–sprang (U.S. also sprung)–sprung), sometimes forcing verbs such as shrink (shrank–shrunk) to have a further form, thus shrunk–shrunken. These uses are often considered nonstandard; the Associated Press Stylebook in American English treats some irregular verbs as colloquialisms, insisting on the regular forms for the past tense of dive, plead and sneak. Dove and snuck are usually considered nonstandard in Britain, although dove exists in some British dialects and snuck is occasionally found in British and even Australian speech. Both dove and snuck are used in Canada.
By extension of the irregular verb pattern, verbs with irregular preterites in some variants of colloquial American English also have a separate past participle, e.g., "to buy": past tense bought spawns boughten. Such formations are highly irregular from speaker to speaker, or even within idiolects. This phenomenon is found chiefly in the northern U.S., and other areas where immigrants of German descent are predominant, and may have developed as a result of German influence.[1] Even in areas where the feature predominates, however, it has not gained widespread acceptance as "standard" usage.
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