Irregular Verbs (A Complete List of Irregular English Verbs)
Regular verbs end in -ed in their past tense and past participle forms. Irregular verbs end in something other than -ed to show past tenses.
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What’s the past tense of sleep? Or wake, ride, bite, write and draw? Each verb has its corresponding present, past and future tenses (altogether, there are 12 tenses in English).
If you need clarification on the tenses and the various verb forms, look no further. But make no mistake: verb tenses in English are confusing. Listen closely, and you’ll hear how they’re constantly confused. That said, understanding the correct conjugations of different tenses, and what the different tenses mean is integral to understanding the structure of language as a whole.
There are 4 past tenses (the simple past, the past continuous, the past perfect and the past perfect continuous tense).
What’s the Past Tense of Tell?
The verb tell has two forms: tell and told. Told is the past tense, and the past participle form of tell.
Is it Cost or Costed? What’s the Past Tense of Cost?
Cost only has one form, which is cost. Cost is a single-form verb that stays the same no matter the tense.
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 Mistake? Is it Mistook or Mistaken?
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 Fly? Flew or Flown?
To fly is the present tense. Flew is the simple past, and flown is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Lead?
The past tense of the transitive verb ‘to lead’, is ‘led’ (rhymed with fed).
Drove or Driven (Which is Correct?)
The simple past tense of drive (rhymes with hive) is drove (rhymes with trove). Driven is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Draw? Draw, Drew, or Drawn?
To draw is in the present tense; whereas drew is the simple past, and drawn is the past participle (in all contexts).
What’s the Past Tense of Read?
The present, past tense and past participle forms of read are all read, though the past tense forms are pronounced differently.