Sorry, but no. I taught English grammar at college level for 31 years. The proper term is hanged. It's the same root sounding verb also known as a homonym. But, one is a regular verb and one is irregular. Hang/hung/hung is for inanimate objects like meat. Hang/hanged/hanged is a regular verb and is used to describe suicide or execution of a human being. I suppose some people might say, "I hanged that darn dog because it kept killing our chickens" but that would be highly unusual lol. Many people have moved to a more general colloquial form of using "hung" for everything. Although incorrect, everybody still understands what you mean by context. It's also indicative of how so many people are now using the European grammar rules for what in American English is considered non-count plural nouns. It goes on and on.
Considering how many so-called trained writers and journalists et al don't even know the correct use of the Oxford comma and use that silly Reuter's rule for objects in a series in a sentence and who also wouldn't recognize a split infinitive if it bit them in the leg, I'm not at all surprised that we're losing the language.
Please go to Webster's or dictionary.com and put in the word "hang." It very clearly gives all the different uses and forms of the root verb, but also gives examples for the regular versus irregular uses to show the difference between hanging an object and hanging a person from the neck until dead.
Ummm... It's "hanged" not hung.
<He hung a piece of meat from the tree>
<He hanged himself by a rope and killed himself>
As you were...
The child hung himself while in isolation is proper grammar……. I think
Sorry, but no. I taught English grammar at college level for 31 years. The proper term is hanged. It's the same root sounding verb also known as a homonym. But, one is a regular verb and one is irregular. Hang/hung/hung is for inanimate objects like meat. Hang/hanged/hanged is a regular verb and is used to describe suicide or execution of a human being. I suppose some people might say, "I hanged that darn dog because it kept killing our chickens" but that would be highly unusual lol. Many people have moved to a more general colloquial form of using "hung" for everything. Although incorrect, everybody still understands what you mean by context. It's also indicative of how so many people are now using the European grammar rules for what in American English is considered non-count plural nouns. It goes on and on.
Considering how many so-called trained writers and journalists et al don't even know the correct use of the Oxford comma and use that silly Reuter's rule for objects in a series in a sentence and who also wouldn't recognize a split infinitive if it bit them in the leg, I'm not at all surprised that we're losing the language.
Please go to Webster's or dictionary.com and put in the word "hang." It very clearly gives all the different uses and forms of the root verb, but also gives examples for the regular versus irregular uses to show the difference between hanging an object and hanging a person from the neck until dead.
Have a most excellent day :-)
Thanks! Learned something new today
You're very welcome! I do miss the classroom... I don't miss the idiot administrators lol.