How do you know when to use swam or swum in a sentence?
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Swam is the past tense of swim and swum is the past participle. Which means that if there are no words between the verb and the subjective noun then you use the past tense: He swan to the shore. If there are words in the between them then you use the past participle: He has never swum before.
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Is swum in the dictionary?
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This is one of the differences between the UK and the US. Not many people in the UK would ever say "swum". But neither is correct and neither is incorrect. Say what it is normal to say in your neck of the woods. If the whole population of one area of the English-speaking world said "swimded" ("I swimded across the river") then that would be "correct" as well.
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