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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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?
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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.
Bleed is in the present tense. Bled is the simple past and the past participle.
Bring is the present tense. Brought is both the past tense and past participle.
To build is in the present tense. Built is both the past tense and the past participle of build.
Sleep is in the present tense. Slept is both the simple past tense and past participle of the verb, to sleep.
To draw is in the present tense; whereas drew is the simple past, and drawn is the past participle (in all contexts).
The simple past tense of drive (rhymes with hive) is drove (rhymes with trove). Driven is the past participle.
Fall is in the present tense. Fell is the simple past, and fallen is the past participle.
To fly is the present tense. Flew is the simple past, and flown is the past participle.
Choose (pronounced like chews) is in the present. Chose is the simple past tense, and chosen is the past participle.
To eat is the base verb (present simple). Ate is the past tense, and eaten is the past participle.