What is the Past Tense? (Forms of the Past Tense)
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.
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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).
Sweeped or Swept? What’s the Past Tense of Sweep?
Sweep is present tense, swept is both the past tense and past participle form of the verb sweep.
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