What’s the Past Tense of Shine? Shined or Shone?
April 16, 2023
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To shine, intransitively, has shone as a past tense. Shined is the past tense of the transitive verb, to shine a light on something.
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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.
Is it Spit or Spat, Paddy Whack? What’s the Past Tense of Spit?
March 21, 2023
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Does he spit rhymes or spat rhymes? What’s the past tense of spit? The answer is spat.
What’s the Past Tense of Begin?
March 11, 2023
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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
Know, Knew, Known: Which is the Correct the Past Tense?
March 11, 2023
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‘Know’ is the present tense, ‘knew’ is the past tense form, and ‘had/have known’ is the past participle form of the verb.
Give, Gave, Given: What’s the Past Tense of Give?
March 9, 2023
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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…
What is the Past Tense? (Forms of the Past Tense)
March 8, 2023
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The past tense is divided into 4 groups, all of which depict an action as occuring at a point or period of time in the past.
What’s Past Tense of Wake? Woke or Woken?
March 7, 2023
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Wake (present tense) has two past verb forms: woke and woken. Woke is the simple past, and woken is the past participle (used with a helper verb).
Shook or Shaken: What’s the Past Tense of Shake?
March 7, 2023
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Shake is the present tense. Shook is the simple past tense, and ‘had shaken’ is the past participle form of shake.
Showed or Shown? What’s the Past Tense of Show?
March 7, 2023
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Show has three verb conjugations altogether: show, showed, and shown/showed (depending on UK/American English). Shown is the past participle of show.
What’s the Past Tense of Spring? Spring, Sprang, Sprung?
March 7, 2023
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‘She sprang out of bed’, is the past tense. ‘She’d sprung out of bed and scraped her knee when she hit the floor,’ uses the participle, sprung.