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Question 32

Select every verb below whose past simple and past participle are both spelled exactly like the base form.

  1. hitCorrect answer
  2. hold
  3. betCorrect answer
  4. hurtCorrect answer
  5. win
  6. splitCorrect answer

Explanation

Four of these stay unchanged in every slot, so the ball hit the post, he bet on the outsider, the fall hurt her wrist and the log has split all reuse the base spelling. Hold and win look similar in a list of short verbs, but they shift their vowel: hold — held — held and win — won — won produce a past form that no longer matches the base.

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