What’s the Past Tense of Mean? Mean or Meant?
The irregular verb mean only has one past verb form: meant. Meant is both the simple past tense and past participle form of the verb ‘mean’.
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How to Use an Ellipsis? (When and Where to Use Ellipses)
An ellipsis looks like three dots ‘…’, and signifies an omission of words from a quote. Ellipses are also used to add a dramatic effect to certain types of writing.
How Do you Abbreviate Continued? Cont. or Cont’d?
Technically, both cont. and cont’d are correct abbreviations for continued. Cont. is a truncated form, and cont’d is a contracted form for continued.
What’s the Past Tense of Weep? Weeped or Wept?
Hopefully you haven’t wept over not knowing the past tense of weep. Here’s a hint, it’s in the previous sentence: wept and had wept are the past tense and past participle of weep.
What is the Past Tense of Forbid? Forbid, Forbade, Forbidden.
Forbid has three verb forms: forbid, forbade, and forbidden. Forbade is the simple past tense, and forbidden is the past participle form of the verb.
What’s the Past Tense of Forget? Forgot, Forgotten?
The verb forget has three main forms: forget (present), forgot (past) and forgotten (past participle). Read this post to refresh your memory on the verb, to forget.
What’s the Past Tense of Swing?
The present tense verb, swing, is an irregular verb with one past form, i.e., swung.
What’s the Past Tense of Shine? Shined or Shone?
To shine, intransitively, has shone as a past tense. Shined is the past tense of the transitive verb, to shine a light on something.
What’s the Past Tense of Begin?
What’s the past tense of “begin”? The word (and verb) to begin (present tense), means “to start doing something; to do the first part of… Read More »What’s the Past Tense of Begin?
Give, Gave, Given: What’s the Past Tense of Give?
Give is the present simple, gave is the past simple, and given is the past participle form of the verb. Read more to learn what this post gives…