sling
Base form
sling
/slɪŋ/
Past simple
slung
/slʌŋ/
Past participle
slung
/slʌŋ/
MeaningC1
to throw something somewhere carelessly; to hang something loosely
to sling your hook
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Sling your coat on the chair and sit down.
- Negative · Form 1Don’t sling your rubbish into the hedge!
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday Tom slung his bag over his shoulder and left.
- Past simple · Form 2Last summer we slung a hammock between two trees.
- Passive · Form 3A rope was slung across the river.
- Present perfect · Form 3Someone has slung an old bike into the pond.
Watch out
Slung with a u in both forms: he slung his bag over his shoulder. Slang is informal language, and slinged and slunged are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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