
12-Mar-2006, 21:33
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Re: pet/petted Quote: |
Originally Posted by Brandi4035 Is it correct to say:
Does your dog like to be petted?
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Does your dog like to be pet? | The answer is the former. The question is in passive voice and so takes the past participle form of the verb. The past participle of "to pet" is "petted": viz. "I have petted the dog".
As a point of interest, in the dialect of English spoken in North-East England it is quite common to replace the past participle with the imperfect form. It is so common in fact that speakers of the dialect often do a rule projection onto verbs with an irregular imperfect, so "Does your dog like to be pet?" would not sound unnatural. |