What’s the Past Tense of Bleed? Bleeded or Bled?
Bleed is in the present tense. Bled is the simple past and the past participle.
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What’s the Past Tense of Build? Build or Built?
To build is in the present tense. Built is both the past tense and the past participle of build.
What’s the Past Tense of Sleep? Sleeped or Slept?
Sleep is in the present tense. Slept is both the simple past tense and past participle of the verb, to sleep.
What’s the Past Tense of Draw? Draw, Drew, or Drawn?
To draw is in the present tense; whereas drew is the simple past, and drawn is the past participle (in all contexts).
What’s the Past Tense of Drive? Drove or Driven?
The simple past tense of drive (rhymes with hive) is drove (rhymes with trove). Driven is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Fall? Fell or Fallen?
Fall is in the present tense. Fell is the simple past, and fallen is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Choose? Chose or Chosen?
Choose (pronounced like chews) is in the present. Chose is the simple past tense, and chosen is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Eat? Ate or Eaten?
To eat is the base verb (present simple). Ate is the past tense, and eaten is the past participle.
What are Collective Nouns? (Collective Nouns vs Mass Nouns)
Collective nouns name a group, unit or collection as one whole or single entity: an army of soldiers.
Is it Lay Down or Lie Down? (Lie, Lay, or Laid?)
To lay down is transitive and uses a sentence object (receiver of an action). To lie down is to be in a horizontal position, and is intransitive.