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Bought vs. Boughten
Bought
Examples:
She bought the painting at the local art gallery.Tom bought a bunch of fresh flowers for his mom.He bought tickets for the next big concert.
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Boughten
Examples:
The store-boughten cookies tasted bland compared to homemade.She used the boughten fabric to craft her own unique dress.His favorite shoes were boughten from a vintage market in town.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Bought is the standard past tense and past participle of the verb buy.
- Boughten is considered nonstandard and is not commonly used in modern English.
- Remember that if youre speaking or writing formally, bought' is the appropriate choice.
- Boughten might appear in some dialects or colloquial speech, but it's rare.
- If in doubt, always choose bought to be grammatically correct.
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