Drink, Drank, Drunk

Everyone knows what drink means. The confusion comes in when figuring out when to use drank and when to use drunk (as a verb, not the other meaning mostly everyone is familiar with). It's actually pretty simple.

Drank is the simple past of drink.

• Example: I drank two glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice this morning.

Drunk is also the past tense of drink but is only used with the verb "have."

• Example: Instead of orange juice, I had drunk two glasses of wine and promptly felt the effects. I have drunk my way through this bottle of wine in record time.

Memorization tip: If you do not use the verb have you do not use drunk.