This is the place where Richard Mateosian comments, sometimes nitpickingly, about questions of writing style, grammar, and vocabulary that occur to him as the words of others impinge upon his consciousness.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Sink, sank, sunk
I sink (present), I sank (past), I have sunk (present perfect).
Don't, as someone did on the news today, say "The navy sunk the pirate ship." They sank the ship.
Similarly, "Honey, I shrunk the kids" is grammatically incorrect. It should be "shrank" or "I've shrunk."
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