Hung is both the form, and the past participle, of hang (as in hang up a telephone), so you can say:<\/p>\n
(a) I hung up the phone.<\/p>\n
or simply<\/p>\n
(b) I hung up.<\/p>\n
In this use, as in sentences (a) and (b) above, hang up is a separable phrasal verb.<\/p>\n
Hang is also used as a transitive verb, to mean the same as hang up, as in sentences (c) to (e) below:<\/p>\n
(c) Nancy hung her clothes in her closet.<\/p>\n
(d) You hung the pictures wrong!<\/p>\n
(e) The pictures were hung on the wall with great care.<\/p>\n
Hang is also an intransitive verb, as in (f) and (g):<\/p>\n
(f) The clothes hung on the clothesline, frozen stiff in the cold.<\/p>\n
(g) The picture hung crookedly from one of its hooks; the other hook had fallen away.<\/p>\n
The other past form of hang\u2014hanged\u2014is the past or past participle of hang. It is used to refer to the execution of a person by hanging a rope around the neck, as in (h) and (i):<\/p>\n
(h) They hanged the ax murderer.<\/p>\n
(i) The ax murderer was hanged.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, hanged is used much less frequently than hung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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