Plink, plank, plunk, or not

May 29th, 2008 at 08:40am Barry Wood

What can I tell you about the -ink verbs? I’m afraid it’s one of those memorize them or
look them up situations.

Some of them follow the regular verb pattern with tenses: blink, blinked, blinked for
present, past and past participle. Others in this group are ink, link and wink.

Two that blaze their own trails are slink (slunk, slunk) and think (thought, thought).

The other group is the trickiest: drink, shrink, sink and stink. They all follow the
pattern -ink, -ank, -unk:

“Occasionally I drink too much, but yesterday I drank too little. There have been times
when I have drunk just the right amount.”

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