The word "volunteered" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is the past tense form of the verb "volunteer," which means to offer to do something without being asked or paid. Example: She volunteered at the soup kitchen every weekend to help feed the homeless.
Instead the focus of everyone's attention was left to congratulate himself on his decision-making – "It was about the substitutes," Van Gaal volunteered – on an evening when the only real downside for United was the injury bulletin about Luke Shaw, Jonny Evans and Antonio Valencia.
Goodes has volunteered to be dropped to Sydney's reserves side after just 15 frustrating minutes of game-time as an AFL sub last weekend.
In July they volunteered to accept 21% but Jean-Claude Juncker, eurogroup chairman, now says: "We have agreed that we have to have a significant increase in the banks' contribution".
This is what did happen: I was quarantined against my will by overzealous politicians after I volunteered to go and treat people affected by Ebola in west Africa.
Many of those who volunteered as purple-clad games makers at the 2012 London Olympics will testify to that.
After studying music for a year, in 1942 he volunteered for the army, returning after the second world war to graduate in 1947.
With children under 14, the police cannot take fingerprints unless they are volunteered.
Pohl volunteered her memories of another time Dresden will never forget, when she was five years old and the city was firebombed in the final months of the second world war.
While waiting for his first job, he volunteered as a dispatch clerk for Bennett and Colman, still, today, the publishers of the Times of India.
The community I volunteered in, Nuevo Gualcho in El Salvador, now has a tourist route that is run by the community which British and national volunteers worked together to create.
Trautmann was born in Bremen, where his father worked in the docks, and he volunteered for the army aged 17. "Growing up in Hitler's Germany, you had no mind of your own," he told Louise Taylor of the Observer in 2010.
