Here is the item:
Latoya would have swum farther,
but a cramp stang her side, so she
rode a wave into shore and
spent the afternoon watching handsome young men parading on the beach.
The second verb, stang, is the problem. As you know, the sentence requires the simple past. Stung is the correctly spelled form.
| Verb | Simple Present |
Simple Past |
Past Participle |
|---|---|---|---|
| sting | sting(s) | stung | stung |