I've been trying to figure out the correct way to use lightning in verb form. If I were to say, "It is thundering and lightninging outside," would that be correct?
Edit: I'm amazed that I don't know simple things like this, and English is my first language. I suppose growing up in "The South" doesn't help any.
Edit: I'm amazed that I don't know simple things like this, and English is my first language. I suppose growing up in "The South" doesn't help any.
www.m-w.com gives lightning and lightninged as the inflected forms under the entry lightning. There is no lightninging; it's lightning.
It [is / was] lightning. It lightninged.
Personally, I don't hear lightninged. I hear There was a flash of lightning.
Under the entry lighten, there's the alternate lighten, lightening, lightened.
It [is / was] lightening. It lightened.
These sound more familar to me.
CJ
It [is / was] lightning. It lightninged.
Personally, I don't hear lightninged. I hear There was a flash of lightning.
Under the entry lighten, there's the alternate lighten, lightening, lightened.
It [is / was] lightening. It lightened.
These sound more familar to me.
CJ
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