Friday, August 27, 2010

Common Enlgish Mistake

bite, biting, bites, bitten, bit

Which word to use?
These bug words are commonly misused by second language English speakers.

Bite: (bit; bitten) a verb for delivering a sting to a person or animal.
Bite: a noun for a painful wound resulting from an insect's stinger thrust into the skin.


Ways to use the different forms of bite:
1.) plural noun: I got a lot of bug bites in the woods.
2.) present tense: The bugs love to bite me.
3.) present continuous: AAH! The bugs are biting me.
4.) simple past verb: A bug bit me last weekend.
5.) past perfect verb: I have been bitten many times in my life.



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