FAQs about verbs

Is it dragged or drugged?

Dragged is the past participle and simple past tense of drag, meaning “move something along the ground with difficulty” (e.g., “Before he left for the night, Ade dragged the canoe up the beach beyond the high water mark”).

Drugged is the past tense of the verb drug, meaning “administer narcotics.” It is also an adjective referring to someone or something that has been drugged (e.g., “The drugged animals were much more docile than usual”).

Sometimes you will find drug (and perhaps even drugged) as the past tense of drag, but this is never correct in formal writing.

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Is drug the past tense of drag?

The past tense of drag is dragged. In some parts of the southern United States, “drug” is in common usage, but the correct spelling for academic writing is always dragged for the simple past tense and past participle.

“Drug” is a verb meaning “administer narcotics” and has the past tense “drugged.”

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Is go a verb?

Go is a very common and versatile verb meaning “travel,” “move,” or “leave.” It is also a noun in the sense of “turn” or “attempt” (e.g., “It’s your go” or “Have a go yourself”).

The simple past tense of “go” is “went.”

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Is went a verb?

Went is the simple past tense of “go,” meaning “travel” or “leave.” Go does not follow the regular pattern of adding “-ed” to form the past tense or past participle.

You will sometimes hear or see went used as the past participle in informal contexts (e.g., “I had went to see her”), but this is never correct in formal English or academic writing.

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Is taked a word?

“Taked” is not a word. If you are looking for the simple past form of the irregular verb “take,” then the correct word is took. The past participle is taken.

• The plane taked off on time.
• The plane took off on time.

• The glue had taked ages to dry.
• The glue had taked ages to dry.

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Is it took or taken?

The simple past tense of take is took, and the past participle is taken. The simple past is used to describe an action that has already happened (e.g., “The GPS took us on the shortest route”), while the past participle is used for perfect tenses (e.g., “He had quickly taken charge”) and the passive voice (e.g., “They left once all the photos had been taken”).

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What does cost an arm and a leg mean?

Cost an arm and a leg is an idiom that means something is extraordinarily expensive. The implication is that it costs more than money can buy. Other idioms with the verb cost that indicate an excessive price include:

• Cost a bomb (British English)
• Cost a pretty penny
• Cost the earth
• Cost a king’s ransom
• Cost a packet (British English)

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Is it costed or cost?

The verb “cost” has two different past tense forms, depending on the meaning being used. The more common meaning, referring to the price that is paid for goods or services, is an irregular verb. The spelling remains the same as the infinitive—cost (e.g., “Andy was delighted that the watch repair had cost less than he feared”).

A less common meaning of “cost,” typically used only in British English, is “to give an estimate of price for work or a project.” When used in this way, it is a regular verb that adds “-ed” for the past tense and past participle (e.g., “Thankfully, the project had been carefully costed to cover exchange-rate fluctuations”).

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Is costed a word?

In British English, costed is the past tense of the verb “cost” meaning “give an estimate of the price of work or a project” (e.g., “The project was fully costed”). It is incorrect to use it when the verb means “to be priced at.”

• That must have costed a fortune!
• That must have cost a fortune!
• Have you costed the new-build project?

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What does putted mean?

Putted is the past tense of the verb “putt,” which is a golf term for a stroke that a golfer takes on the green (e.g., “Woods putted better than anyone else on the tour that whole season”). It is never the correct past tense of put.

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