What’s the Past Tense of Hit?
Hit is an irregular verb with one form: the past tense and past participle of hit are just hit.
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Is it Rang or Rung? What’s the Past Tense of Ring?
To ring someone, as in ‘phone a friend’, is the present tense. Rang is the past tense, and rung is the past participle.
Drank or Drunk? What’s the Past Tense of Drink?
Drink is an irregular verb with three forms: drank is past tense, and drunk is the past participle of the present tense verb, to drink.
What’s the Past Tense of Sing? Sang or Sung?
Sing is the simple present, sang is the standard simple past tense, and sung is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Meet?
The past tense and past participle forms of the verb meet are the same: both are met.
What’s the Past Tense of Read?
The present, past tense and past participle forms of read are all read, though the past tense forms are pronounced differently.
What’s the Past Tense of Spill? Spilled vs Spilt
By and large, spilled is favoured in American English as both the past tense and past participle. British English, as you may have suspected, prefers spilt, also for both.
What’s the Past Tense of Spoil? Spoiled or Spoilt?
The preferred past tense in either case appears to be spoiled. In UK English, spoilt is also accepted as a past participle form.
What’s the Past Tense of Spell? Spelled or Spelt?
Unless referring to the ancient and hulled wheat, the past tense of the verb spell is spelt and spelled.
