tense - When to use drank and drunk - English Language Learners . . . drank is the simple past tense: "I drank the wine yesterday " drunk is the past participle, used in the perfect and pluperfect tenses of the verb "I had drunk the wine before you arrived " See: Drink drank drunk
I never {drunk drank} - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I drank I never drank The same is true for other forms of drink Compare: I drink coffee I never drink coffee I have drunk coffee I have never drunk coffee Drink is a bit of an odd word, historically For a time, it was fashionable to avoid association with drunkenness by saying drank when drunk was more appropriate
Is it correct to say the wine is have drunk or the wine is half drank Drank is a simple past (eg He drank the wine) and cannot be part of any verb phrase with is Drunk is the past participle, so it can be used to form a passive, or adjectivally However, when used as an adjective, it almost always means "intoxicated", not "consumed", so you might say The man is half drunk, but probably not The wine is half drunk
idioms - What is the Kool-aid reference? - English Language Learners . . . To be honest, the fact that this has become a by-word for gullibility is a bit unfair to the victims of the slaughter According to Wikipedia the adults who drank the poisoned Flavor-Aid were faced with armed guards who were prepared to shoot anyone who disobeyed –
Future tense of drink: It will be drunk drank drunken? The grammar is correct, but it sounds a little bit awkward to say it like that because when you say drunk, it brings to mind the image of a person who has been intoxicated with alcohol
prepositional phrases - I drank water in a cup - English Language . . . I drank water in a cup I drank water in my kitchen In the second sentence, what the speaker surely means is that he was in his kitchen when he drank the water But in the first sentence, he surely does not mean that he was in a cup when he drank the water, but rather that the water was in a cup
sentence structure - Have you been drinking? vs Have you drunk . . . What's the difference? One day, I returned from dinner with my coworkers Before I came home, I drank several beers When I entered the living room, my wife asked me: Have you been drinking? Did you drink? Have you drunk? Is there any slight difference? Which of the three is best ? Could anyone tell the difference ?
past tense - Tea drinking vs. tea drunk in this context - English . . . Some examples of where drank would be an appropriate word choice would be: I drank a lot of tea this afternoon [simple past] The American guests have drank almost as much tea as their British hosts at the party tonight [past participle] As both terms also form the past tense of drink, in informal speech you might also hear:
Whats wrong with this sentence, I had a little drink. ? "I drank until I could barely stand" First popularised in the song "Show me the Way to go Home" written in 1925 I see nothing wrong with the sentence in itself, merely in the connotation To avoid the possible confusion, you might be wiser to actually specify "I went out for a couple of beers last night" or