When Do You Use Quitted?
The Past Tense of Quit Is Now Quit for Most Speakers and Writers; Dictionaries Usually Allow Quitted as an Alternative, but It Is Rare or Nonexistent in North...
The past tense of quit is now quit for most speakers and writers; dictionaries usually allow quitted as an alternative, but it is rare or nonexistent in North America and Australia, and outnumbered by quit by about 16 to 1 in the British National Corpus. Quitted is more commonly used to mean "left".
How do you use quitted?
Quitted sentence example
- On the 3rd of December 1564 he quitted Moscow with his whole family. ...
- Alexander came within sight of the Persian host without having met with any opposition since he quitted Tyre. ...
- In 1691 he quitted Transylvania altogether.
Can we use quitted?
Yes, but the quitted form is dying out- I haven't heard it used for a long time.
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