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What is the proper past and present tense of using shrink wrap and why?
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I'm an esl person and am wondering what the best phrasing of this 'shrink-wrap' word is.
past tense:
- I shrink-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk shrink-wrap around the food.
- I shrunk the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
present tense:
- I am shrink wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking shrink-wrap around the food.
- I am shrinking the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
Additionally, what part-of-speech is shrink-wrap?
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I'm an esl person and am wondering what the best phrasing of this 'shrink-wrap' word is.
past tense:
- I shrink-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk shrink-wrap around the food.
- I shrunk the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
present tense:
- I am shrink wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking shrink-wrap around the food.
- I am shrinking the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
Additionally, what part-of-speech is shrink-wrap?
tenses past-tense parts-of-speech compounds
asked 3 hours ago
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Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
3 hours ago
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Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
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I'm an esl person and am wondering what the best phrasing of this 'shrink-wrap' word is.
past tense:
- I shrink-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk shrink-wrap around the food.
- I shrunk the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
present tense:
- I am shrink wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking shrink-wrap around the food.
- I am shrinking the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
Additionally, what part-of-speech is shrink-wrap?
tenses past-tense parts-of-speech compounds
asked 3 hours ago
Joe BJoe B
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I'm an esl person and am wondering what the best phrasing of this 'shrink-wrap' word is.
past tense:
- I shrink-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk-wrapped the food.
- I shrunk shrink-wrap around the food.
- I shrunk the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
present tense:
- I am shrink wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking wrapping the food.
- I am shrinking shrink-wrap around the food.
- I am shrinking the shrink-wrap around the food.
- Other
Additionally, what part-of-speech is shrink-wrap?
tenses past-tense parts-of-speech compounds
tenses past-tense parts-of-speech compounds
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Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
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Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
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Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
3 hours ago
1
Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
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Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
3 hours ago
Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
3 hours ago
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Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
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Welcome to EL&U. One of the expectations of Stack Exchange is that you attempt some basic research on your own. For example, looking up shrink-wrap is a quality dictionary will give you its part of speech, variant forms, and basic etymology. A simple web search on "shrink-wrapped" and "shrunk wrapped" would give you an idea of their relative prevalence. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for additional guidance. In general, only one component of a compound word is inflected.
– choster
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Your mistake is to think that shrink-wrap as a verb consists of the two verbs shrink and wrap together – it does not. It consists of the noun shrink-wrap plus a zero morpheme which turns the noun into a verb. The same is true of cling-film, pickpocket, etc.; those also don’t become “I *clung-filmed the food” or “Someone *picked-pocketed me” in the past tense. (Also, the past tense of shrink is shrank, not shrunk, which is the past participle.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago