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Stank vs. Stunk
Stank
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Stunk
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Stank is the simple past tense of stink for many English speakers.
- Stunk is the past participle form of stink.
- To remember, think of stank as the immediate past event and stunk as more completed or perfective past action.
- Stank when you are simply stating what happened and stunk when you are using it in perfect tenses like have stunk.
- Stink changes to stank or stunk based on whether you need a simple past or perfect construction, respectively.
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