All usage manuals consider shrank the preferred or exclusive past tense of shrink, shrunk being the past participle." Kerry Wood of Palo Alto, Calif., adds,
Shrink (shrunk/shrank) Dive (dive/dove) Your choice! Of course, this is not a rule set in stone, and exceptions exist on both sides of the pond. At the end of the day, just like the destination of that holiday that left you reaching for sunscreen, the choice is yours. However, onc...
Is shrank a proper word? Use 'shrank' for the simple past ("I shrank your jeans") and "shrunk" for the past participle ("I have shrunk your jeans"). Herman Melville used the word 'shrinked', but you should probably not follow his example. The short answer is shrank. What is prefa...
shrink收缩shrank /shrunkshrunk / shrunkenDo we have the same spirit as Aron?我们有阿伦那样的精神吗? saw锯sawedsawed / sawnLet’s think about it before we find ourselves “between a rock and a hard place”, and before we have to make a decision that could mean life or death.在我们发现...
1. To advance forward while simultaneously causing someone or something to advance forward as well. The player moved forward with the ball and kicked it toward the net. The man moved forward with his three children through the crowd. 2. To begin undertaking, developing, or making progress in...
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when only small and medium sized tables were left, the file shrank without much difficulty.My recollection was that lob pages did not move on a shrink or index rebuild,unless that table was partitioned, then it would move with the partition location....
A. It had shrunk year by year. B.It had grown by about 3 percent. C.It had remained the same in general. D. It had increased regularly every ten years. 3.What can we learn from James Pope's words? A. The climate may cause the change of Antarcticseaice. B.The growing trend of...
For the best part of two decades, China claimed the lion’s share of new foreign-investment projects in Asia. Last year it received less than India or Vietnam. staggering <adj.>难以置信的 shrink-shrank-shrunk <v.>收缩 the American Chamber of Commerce in China 中国美国商会 ...
filmHoney, I Shrunk the Kidsas pushing the use ofshrankinto obscurity in favor of the past participleshrunkfor the simple past tense. He also discusses—and uses—snuckas the past tense form ofsneak, calling it a “perfect example of a usage that has crept (informally creeped) up on us....