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Drowned vs. Drownded
Drowned
Examples:
The fields were drowned under the torrential downpour.Her voice drowned out the noise of the bustling city.Tears drowned his face during the moving speech.
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Drownded
Examples:
The basement flooded, and all my old books got drownded.She slipped, fell, and nearly drownded in the shallow end.The flowers drownded after the heavy rains last night.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Drowned is the correct past tense of drown, while drownded is a nonstandard or incorrect form.
- Remember that drown has only one past tense form, which is drowned.
- To avoid confusion, think of drown as a regular verb where you simply add -ed to form the past tense.
- Drownded may sometimes be heard in dialects, but it is not grammatically standard.
- Associate drowned with standard English to avoid informal or incorrect usage.
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