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To all users who love posting new threads, especially 94elmwood. Please take a minute to read these simple rules which will help you improve your level of English.
Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging."
In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child’s picture above my desk.
Now back to the old debate about "Blond" and "blonde"
Blonde is one of few adjectives in written English to retain separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders. Each of the two forms, however, is pronounced the same way.
"a blonde" can be used to describe a woman but not a man who is merely said to possess blond(e) hair.
Another hair color word of French origin, brunet(te), also functions in the same way. "brunet" as meaning "dark-complexioned" or a "dark-complexioned person"
Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging."
In all other senses of the word, hung is the preferred form as past tense and past participle, as in I hung my child’s picture above my desk.
Now back to the old debate about "Blond" and "blonde"
Blonde is one of few adjectives in written English to retain separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders. Each of the two forms, however, is pronounced the same way.
"a blonde" can be used to describe a woman but not a man who is merely said to possess blond(e) hair.
Another hair color word of French origin, brunet(te), also functions in the same way. "brunet" as meaning "dark-complexioned" or a "dark-complexioned person"
