Is “Paid” or “Payed” Correct?
April 1, 2024
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What is the correct past tense of “pay”? The verb pay, which describes giving money to someone for something you want to buy or for
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Do you ever catch yourself questioning the correct past tense of a certain verb, like ‘dream’: is it dreamed or dreamt? Similarly, other confusing verbs, like spelled or spelt, burned or burnt, or what about speed or speeded?
Mastering English verb conjugation is no small feat—but it doesn’t need to be so difficult. We make learning the fundamentals of verb conjugation sensible and straightforward.
The proper past tenses of verbs (and all of their other tenses) will make sense once you understand what each of them mean, their proper construction and how they denote actions or events in relation to time. We get into the twelve principal tenses in English, and include worksheets/practice questions for you to practice your own self-mastery of the past tense of verbs, along their their other tense forms.
What’s the Past Tense of Creep?
March 27, 2024
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Is it creeped or crept? If you’re trying to say that you’re creeped out by something, use creeped. Otherwise, both creeped and crept are accepted
Sweeped or Swept? What’s the Past Tense of Sweep?
August 14, 2023
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Sweep is present tense, swept is both the past tense and past participle form of the verb sweep.
What’s the Past Tense of Mistake? Is it Mistook or Mistaken?
July 28, 2023
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Both mistook and mistaken are past forms of the present tense verb, mistake. Mistook is the simple past tense, whereas mistaken is the past participle form.
What’s the Past Tense of Mean? Mean or Meant?
July 28, 2023
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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’.
What’s the Past Tense of Lying Down? Lay down or Laid down?
July 24, 2023
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The past tense of lie down is lay down, and the past participle is lain. The past tense of lay (something) down on (something) is laid.
What’s the Past Tense of Weep? Weeped or Wept?
July 12, 2023
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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.
May 30, 2023
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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?
May 30, 2023
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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?
April 17, 2023
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The present tense verb, swing, is an irregular verb with one past form, i.e., swung.