Fit, fat or fitted

Fitted

"Fit" and "fitted" are both proper past tenses for the verb "fit". "Fitted" is the only proper form when referring to making adujustments as in "fitted a suit".

My clothes did fit in the suitcase

Where are you going? Anyplace nice?

I'm still a little confused. Different people have said different things...

I'm not going anywhere. This arguement keeps coming up in our family. That was just the example I came up with...I wish I was going somewhere...

Crazynutt

The verb "to fit" can be used with a direct object (e.g. to fit a new gearbox in a car) or without (e.g. to fit in a suitcase).


In American English perhaps but not in British English, where "fitted" is the only correct past form, whether or not the verb has a direct object. Thus -
"I fitted a new gearbox"
"My clothes fitted in my suitcase".

"Did fit" is grammatically correct, but it is emphatic. You would only use it if there had previously been some doubt, e.g. -

"I had feared that I had too many clothes for my suitcase but they did fit".

Well. you're in Australia. I've always wanted to go there.

My choice would be "My clothes fit in my suitcase," but I am just an American. Fitted sounds silly to me. <sorry> If you turned it around and said the opposite:

My clothes never fit in my suitcase.... it seems better <again, as a stinkin' American> than "my clothes never fitted in my suitcase."

PS -- Sounds like an interesting family.

Yeah, it is an interesting family...And just as Piffka said "Fitted sounds silly to me"...

So, obviously, in different countries you say different things, and they are all accepted...But does any one know-if I was living in Australia-what I would say?

Thanks
Crazynutt

Yeah, it is an interesting family...And just as Piffka said "Fitted sounds silly to me"...

So, obviously, in different countries you say different things, and they are all accepted...But does any one know-if I was living in Australia-what I would say?

Thanks
Crazynutt