Hey hey, mates! Let's figure out the difference!
l suggest you to remember a rule:
‘clothes are hung’ (on the wall)
‘people are hanged’ (as an act of the execution)
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This rule will help you avoid some uncertain and inconvenient situations.
Anyway, if we dig a little bit deeper we will find that people can also be hung, but in this case it doesn’t mean an execution.
For example somebody who had decided to make a suicide jumped from the bridge and was hung by a big screw of the bridge over a river.
Thus, there are three common ways we can use the verbs ‘to hang’ and ‘to hang’.
Remember the rule and don’t forget that people can also be hung.
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In addition. There are some idiomatic ways of using the verbs.
- One friend is saying something to another one: ‘We hung out very cool last Friday. Let’s hang out together again next Friday.’
(to hang out means to spend time with friends, take a rest together, spend evening with friends or in the way you like. Remember: ‘hang-hung-hung’)
- I wasn’t able to say something to him. He’s just hanging up the call. (Or he was hanging up on me) – to hang up the call and to hang up on someone (during the call).
(to break the call, stop the call. Remember: hang-hung-hung)
- If you want to make the world better, don’t get hung up on people who don’t understand the flow of your soul.
(to get hung up / to hang up – to take care about something in a very extra way, have a feeling of fear, anxiety, or embarrassment about something, being nervous about something, etc.
- If you don’t get hung up, you just don’t give a f*ck. Rude? Yes. But clear. And, remember: hang-hung-hung).