Here is the item:
All of Charlie's hopes sinked when the
telephone rang and the beautiful
Delores told the eager young
man that she did not have time to study calculus that evening.
The first verb, sinked, is the problem. As you know, the sentence requires the simple past. Sank is the most common correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present |
Simple Past |
Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| sink | sink(s) | sank or sunk | sunk |