Such uses of brought should be familiar with English speakers, but we present to you, anyways, two morsels topped with "grammar gloss": "She brought brownies for the bake sale" (past tense) "My coworker had brought donuts for the office-and I couldn't resist" (past participle, and had gives that away).īrought has a distinguished pedigree that includes a number of variations in Old and Middle English, among them are the past tense brōhte and the past participle brōht. Brought is the long-standing past tense and past participle.
By analogy, brang and brung should be inflections of bring-but that's not the case. Following the i to a or u conjugation, the past tense of spring is sprang (or sprung) and its past participle is sprung. The past tense of ring is rang and its past participle is rung the past tense of sing is sang (or sung) and its past participle is sung. Past Tense for Strong Verbsįor the verbs ring, sing, and spring, the root vowel ( i) is changed to indicate the past tense and the past participle. ( Talk, change, and build are examples of weak verbs.) Of the irregular verbs mentioned, three of them share another quality. That is to say, they all close with the same sound and they all belong to a class of "strong" irregular verbs that are inflected by a change in the root vowel rather than by the adding of a suffix-such as -ed, -d, or -t, or -ing-which is how " weak" regular verbs are inflected to indicate tense. Ring, sing, spring, and bring have two things in common: they rhyme and they are " strong" verbs.
'Brought' has past tense and past participle variations that date back to Old and Middle English.
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