![]() ![]() But when people avoid it, that makes its correct usage sound even stranger. As we saw with “drink,” when a past tense sounds strange, people tend to avoid it. Also acceptable: In the past, he has drank. Past participle: In the past, he has drunk. Simple past tense form: Yesterday, he drank. ![]() Here, according to Merriam-Webster’s, are the proper forms of “drink.” Present tense form: Today, he drinks. I hear people going out of their way to avoid saying, “By noon, I had drunk four cups of coffee.” I suspect that’s because they’re not confident this is correct. People seem leery of using this verb in the present perfect or past perfect tenses. With that in mind, here are seven verbs whose past participles require extra care.ĭrink. You need to be on the lookout for them because they can trip you up when you’re not paying attention. You also have to know when to look for answers.Ĭertain words require extra vigilance. Here’s a condensed lesson: For any irregular verb, the past tense and past participle are listed right after the entry word, in that order.īut knowing where to look for answers is just half the battle. 4 at Toronto.Last week, we talked about how to look up past participles in your dictionary. That means Gratton will miss home games against the Panthers (Saturday) and the Islanders (Tuesday) and a road game at Carolina (Wednesday). By that time, Demers already knew Gratton would be lost for three games. The news wasn't made available to the media until more the two hours after the game. John D'Amico, the NHL supervisor at the game, informed Demers of Stewart's spitting claim about 30 minutes after the game. According to Lightning players and coaches, Stewart threatened Gratton with ejection in the first period. The argument between Gratton and Stewart was their second exchange of the game. Gratton was given a two-minute penalty for roughing, a two-minute penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, a 10-minute misconduct penalty and a game misconduct. Gratton then stepped into the bench area and down the hallway into the locker room. ![]() Stewart then appeared to yell at Gratton as he followed Gratton across the ice to the Lightning bench. The incident took place near the Lightning net. That's what Chris said and I believe him." "He was wearing a mouth guard and sometimes that makes it difficult to talk, but he absolutely did not spit on him. ![]() The only thing that could have possibly happened, he said, was that as he was yelling that it's possible saliva (sprayed) out as he was talking," Demers said. According to Demers, Gratton was "pushed by Stewart, and then there was a verbal exchange. Gratton attempted to intervene but was held back by Stewart. The incident supposedly occurred with 6.2 seconds remaining when a fight broke out between Tampa Bay's Darcy Tucker and Buffalo's Vaclav Varada. According to the NHL rule book, no appeal of this particular rule can be made unless the suspension is longer than three games. Gratton, 23, could have been suspended for more than three games, but the league decided to give him the minimum punishment. Stewart ruled that Gratton's alleged spitting fell under the rule of "physically (demeaning) an Official." Any player who uses physical force against an official, without intent to injure, is suspended for at least 10 games. Should a player attempt to injure an official, he is suspended for at least 20 games. Category III of the rule states, in part, "Any player who, by his actions, physically demeans an Official shall be suspended for not less than three (3) games." Nevertheless, Stewart's word is all that's needed to suspend Gratton under Rule 76 of the NHL rule book. Nobody saw it _ the linesman, other players, nobody. Chris denies it, but the referee said it happened. "There's nothing we can do about it," Lightning general manager and coach Jacques Demers said. ![]()
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