Drug Her Across The Floor

This is the extraordinary moment a passenger was dragged along a station platform after getting her hand stuck in a train door.

Drug her across the floor.

The verb to drug meaning to drag shows up in literature to c1250 in lofsong lefdi. Regardless coming out of oe it was a strong verb and imo should still be one in. When writing you shouldn t use drug as the past tense of drag. Wasn t pleseant to say the least.

Should i use drug or dragged. I can t tell when people started using dragged instead of drug drog for the past tense but obviously it was still common enough when people settled in the us. The pharmacist knows a lot about each individual as well as how they interact together. It is non standard and only found in dialectal english.

Rahim who identified himself as the owner slept on the floor on a flimsy mattress. He got addicted to drugs after his mother died three years ago. Dragged is the proper past tense form of the word drag when you re using it to talk about having pulled something across the floor. But if you ignored her she would use the carpet as her toilet paper.

Terrified tourists in china were dragged screaming across a dizzying glass walkway suspended hundreds of feet in the air over a canyon. The box was too heavy to carry so the man it across the floor.