어법보다는 어휘 분야에 가깝기는 하지만,혼동하기 쉬운 동사들의 경우는 철저한 점검 및 숙지가 필요하다.
고교 수준에서는 특히 스펠링이 비슷한 유사 동사들에 신경을 써서 알아둘 필요가 있다.
다음의 동사들은 기본형은 물론 과거, 과거분사, 자동사, 타동사 여부까지 완벽하게 알고 있어야 한다.
①lie vi. 거짓말하다(lied-lied)
lie vi. 놓여 있다: 눕다, ∼인 채로 있다(lay-lain)
lay vt. 두다, 누이다 (laid-laid)
②rise vi. 뜨다, 일어서다(rose-risen)
raise vt. 들다, 올리다(raised-raised)
③fall vi. 쓰러지다 (fell-fallen)
fell vt. 쓰러뜨리다 (felled-felled)
④find vt. 발견하다 (found-found)
found vt. 설립하다 (founded-founded)
⑤wind vt. 감다 (wound-wound)
wound vt. 부상을 입히다 (wounded-wounded)
⑥hang vi/vt. 매달리다: 걸다 (hung-hung)
hang vt. 교수형에 처하다 (hanged-hanged)
⑦see vi/vt. 보이다: 보다 (saw-seen)
saw vt. 톱질하다 (sawed-sawed)
⑧die vi. 죽다 (died-died)
dye vi/vt. 물들다: 물들이다 (dyed-dyed)
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①Statistics can often lie.
She lay back against the pillows.
The difficulty lies in providing sufficient evidence.
He laid his hand on my shoulder.
②She picked up her bag and rose to leave.
Raise your hand if you know the right answer.
Betty raised the important question of who would be in charge.
③The number of subscribers has fallen to 1000.
More than 100 trees were felled in just over an hour.
④He tried the door and found it unlocked.
Founded in 1935 in Ohio,Alcoholics Anonymous is now a world-wide organization.
⑤Did you remember to wind the clock?
They were wounded in the war.
⑥He hung the magnificent picture on the library wall.
The angry mob hanged the dictator and his minions.
⑦I saw the hideous monster running toward me.
I sawed off the end of the plank.
⑧She died for her country twenty years ago.
She dyed her T-shirts for a change.
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다음 문장의 [ ]안에서 적절한 표현을 고르시오.
1.As the transfusion progressed, he [laid/ lay] in bed and smiled seeing the color returning to her cheeks.
2.One day he [fell / felled] into a light sleep.
3.Some psychologists think that the origin of jealousy [lies / lays] in biology, i.e., that jealousy is an instinctive response in humans.
4.The death toll of the Burnside train crash [rose / raised] to four yesterday when an unidentified man died in the hospital.
5.Most of the world's major cities still [lie / lay] on the banks of rivers.
6.Manual-winding watches must be [wound / wounded] by hand every day, whereas self-winding watches are [wound / wounded] by an internal rotor which responds to wrist movements.
7.As he [lay / laid] his hand on the wound, it seemed that the pain I suffered passed into his hand. To my amazement, the wound was healed at once.
8.A few institutions of higher education have been [laying / lying] the groundwork for the online learning environment since the early 1990's.