What is the past tense of 'forgo'?

Question

As in: "The baseball player _____________ an MRI on his hand by demonstrating that he could do 5 fingertip pushups."

Answer 1

forwent ... but it isn't used a lot. 'Has forgone' or 'had forgone' are probably more common.

In your sentence, 'forgo' is not really the correct word. To 'forgo' means to 'go without' something rather than to 'avoid having' something, so I might forgo a visit to the pub in favour of an early night but your baseball player would have avoided an MRI or would have been reprieved from an MRI or something like that.

Answer 2

The syntax of the whole sentence needs to be changed to avoid sounding awkward. The baseball player, having foregone the MRI on his hand, demonstrated that he could do five fingertip push ups.

Answer 3

The Past Tense form of 'FORGO' is FORWENT' & the past participle, 'FORGONE' Similar to the word 'GO'.

Source: Advanced Learner's OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Answer 4

The past tense of "forgo" would be "forgone", but that's not the word you want in the blank. The word should be "underwent".

Answer 5

I think you could use "forwent" there, but it'd sound a bit strange. In your sample sentence, I think avoided, circumvented, sidestepped or evaded would work well.

Answer 6

Forgot

Answer 7

Good question! Lessee... Aha! Dictionary.com[1] says (logically enough) "forwent".

Hope that helps.

Answer 8

Declined.

Answer 9

forgone

Answer 10

forgone