What’s the Past Tense of Make? Make or Made?
The verb ‘to make’ has two forms altogether: make and made. Make is the present tense, and made is the past tense, and past participle
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The verb ‘to make’ has two forms altogether: make and made. Make is the present tense, and made is the past tense, and past participle
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