swung
take took taken
tear tore torn
thrive throve (thrived) thriven (thrived)
throw threw thrown
tread trod trodden, trod
wear wore worn
weave wove woven
win won won
wind wound wound
wring wrung wrung
write wrote written

Remarks on Certain Verb Forms.

246.  Several of the perfect participles are seldom used except as adjectives:  as, “his bounden duty,” “the cloven hoof,” “a drunken wretch,” “a sunken snag.” Stricken is used mostly of diseases; as, “stricken with paralysis.”

The verb bear (to bring forth) is peculiar in having one participle (borne) for the active, and another (born) for the passive.  When it means to carry or to endure, borne is also a passive.

The form clomb is not used in prose, but is much used in vulgar English, and sometimes occurs in poetry; as,—­

     Thou hast clomb aloft.—­WORDSWORTH

     Or pine grove whither woodman never clomb.—­COLERIDGE

The forms of cleave are really a mixture of two verbs,—­one meaning to adhere or cling; the other, to split.  The former used to be cleave, cleaved, cleaved; and the latter, cleave, clave or clove, cloven.  But the latter took on the weak form cleft in the past tense and past participle,—­as (from Shakespeare), “O Hamlet! thou hast cleft my heart in twain,”—­while cleave (to cling) sometimes has clove, as (from Holmes), “The old Latin tutor clove to Virgilius Maro.”  In this confusion of usage, only one set remains certain,—­cleave, cleft, cleft (to split).

Crew is seldom found in present-day English.

     Not a cock crew, nor a dog barked.—­IRVING.

     Our cock, which always crew at eleven, now told us it was time
     for repose.—­GOLDSMITH.

Historically, drunk is the one correct past participle of the verb drink.  But drunk is very much used as an adjective, instead of drunken (meaning intoxicated); and, probably to avoid confusion with this, drank is a good deal used as a past participle:  thus,—­

     We had each drank three times at the well.—­B.  TAYLOR.

     This liquor was generally drank by Wood and Billings. 
     —­THACKERAY.

Sometimes in literary English, especially in that of an earlier period, it is found that the verb eat has the past tense and past participle eat (et), instead of ate and eaten; as, for example,—­