CONFUSING VERBS



                                                     CONFUSING VERBS

a) raise, raised, raised (transitive)
The supermarket raised its prices twice last week.



b) rise, rose, risen (intransitive)
 Prices rose three times last week.

c) arouse, aroused, aroused (transitive)
The man's peculiar behaviour aroused the police's suspicion.

d) arise, arose, arisen (intransitive)
Their suspicion arose because of the man's peculiar behaviour.

e) set, set, set (transitive)
We set the chair at the head of the table.

f)   sit, sat, sat (intransitive)
My father sat at the head of the table
g) lay, laid, laid (transitive)
We laid the carpet after we'd painted the walls.

h) lie,* lay, lain (intransitive)
I lay on the sofa after dinner and went to sleep.

i)   bind, bound, bound (tie up)
He bound the dog to the fence with a long rope.

j)  bound, bounded, bounded (1. border   2. jump)
Luxembourg is bounded by Belgium,           Germany and France.
The dog was bounding across the field.

k) find, found, found
I found your pen on top of the fridge
l)   found, founded, founded (establish)
Mao Tse-Tung founded the People's Republic of China.

m) grind, ground, ground (crush, into powder)
In the past people ground wheat into Hour using large stones.

n) ground, grounded, grounded (compel to stay on the around)
The authorities grounded the plane for safety checks.

o) wind, wound, wound (twist, turn)
He wound the string into a tight ball.

p) wound, wounded, wounded (injure)
The gun shots wounded several people.

q) fall, fell, fallen
She fell as she was getting off the bus
r)  fell, felled, felled (cut down)
They felled the tree because it was getting too big.

s)  see, saw, seen
They saw an accident, while driving to work.



t)  saw, sawed, sawed/sawn (cut with a saw)
He sawed the wood into equal lengths.

u) hang, hung, hung (suspend something)
They hung a flag from the window for Republic Day.

v) hang, hanged, hanged (kill someone by hanging)
The leader of the Pakistani military coup, General Zia ul-Huq, hanged the President, Bhutto, in 1979

* Lie "yalan söylemek" anlamındaysa, düzenli bir fiildir: She lied to us about her coming late.