Hang.
I think you know this word.
It’s very common.
But how well do you know it?
For example, do you know all the different things you can hang?
Think about it.
And I’ll tell you the answer right after I tell you about…
MY NOT VERY EXCITING WEEKEND
How was your weekend?
Mine was quiet.
I was supposed to hang out with my English friend on Saturday night.
But when I texted him on Saturday afternoon he confessed, “I overdid it last night.”
Translation: He drank too much on Friday and now he has a hangover and isn’t leaving his apartment.
I guess that’s the price you pay for having English friends…
HANG
So what can you hang?
When you move into a new house and the walls are bare, you can hang some wallpaper and then hang some pictures.
In the winter, when you walk into a restaurant, you can hang your coat on the coatrack.
If it’s nice outside, after you do the laundry, you can hang your clothes out to dry.
And sadly, as we’ve been reading about in the news lately, Iran likes to hang people it calls criminals, but whom we in the West we would call normal citizens.
SOUND SMART
Now here’s something interesting that not even most native speakers know.
There are two past tenses of “to hang.”
What are they?
And which is for a picture?
And which is for a person?
Let me know in the comments.
Then tomorrow we’ll talk about some common expressions with “hang.”
Cheers,
Mr. Vig
Hi! I think that irregular form of hang is used for pictures and regular form is used for people. If I remember right then one example that comes into my mind is – The criminal was hanged… (probably from some kind of crime book).
Hung a picture
They hanged him high
Use “hung” for things and “hanged” for people.
Unfortunately I have known a guy who hanged himself. I know the past tense is hanged for men and hung for objects
I think hanged is for a person and hung is for things
The prisoner hanged in prison.
I hung the picture on the wall.
Thank’s Mr Vig to be here always !!! I need time ………. I’m learning Japanese to go in 🇯🇵 Japan soon …… anyway thank’s to you and best regards Lilac
I guess “hunged” is only used when a person is killed.
The two past tenses are “hung” and “hanged.”
We use “hung” for a picture.
We use “hanged” for a person.
Coats are hung, people are hanged.
Hang, hung, hung, irregular verb. For hanging things on the walls or wires, sticks and similar.
Hang, hanged, hanged, regular verb used for people to murder them by hanging. Execution. Punishment.
Johnny Cash hung his head in a song, since he wanted to show his shame. But he will be hanged for killing a man. Luckily, it’s only the song
I hang…… Iam hanging
Empty walls.
Hang/hung/hung for things. Hang/hanged/hanged for person
The regular one for a picture and the irregular one for a person
I think “hung” is used for things and “hanged” for a person.
the criminal was hanged
they hung the picture
Hang/ hung for objects.
Hang/hanged for persons.( for punishment- suicide)
They hanged the king and I hung the picture on a wall