1 This verb is always transitive and means to place or to set something in a certain position.

2 Do not confuse lose with loose.

The strong verbs number about eighty. Like the preceding weak verbs, they are nearly all words of one syllable and include the verbs most frequently used in everyday speech:

1 This verb must not be confounded with sit, which is always intransitive, except in the phrase "to sit a horse." It is, of course, proper to say "The sun sets" and to speak of the "setting sun." As to a "setting hen," good usage has long ago justified the expression. The grammarians may just as well proclaim a truce; those who raise hens are not going to talk about “sitting hens." 2 The student should beware of the expression "to get shut of," which appears more often as "shet of" or "shed of." It is commonly derived from the verb "shut,” but was doubtless influenced by the verb "shed." At any rate, it is a vulgarism for which "to get rid of" may always be substituted.

Cautions. Unless the past participle has just been used, do not omit it after have. These sentences are correct:

I've seen that man; I'm sure that I have.
Have you heard him? I think you have.
Has he swum two miles? He says he has.
I had already told him; I know I had.

He has failed utterly; they, at least, say he has.

Here the past participles need not be repeated because, having just been used, they may be understood; but in the following sentences the past participles written above the line must be inserted, or the sentences will be ungrammatical: