What’s the Past Tense of Put? Put or Putted?
Put is an irregular verb with one form that remains unchanged no matter the tense. It’s similar to other irregular verbs like shut, burst, let, and hurt.
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).
Put is an irregular verb with one form that remains unchanged no matter the tense. It’s similar to other irregular verbs like shut, burst, let, and hurt.
The verb set belongs to the class of irregular verbs with one form, like bet, shut, and hurt, set remains unchanged despite tense.
The verb to shut belongs to the category of irregular verbs with only one form. This means that shut remains the same in the past tense, and is simply shut.
For the safe bet, stick to bet. Bet uses one form for the most part, and is just bet. Betted is a nonstandard past form of bet (present tense).
Cost only has one form, which is cost. Cost is a single-form verb that stays the same no matter the tense.
To run is the simple present tense. Ran is the simple past tense form of run, and run is also the past participle form of the verb.
The past tense and participle of strike is struck. The adjectival past participle is stricken, as in, a grief-stricken widow.
Both the past tense and past participle form of sit are sat. Sit is in the present tense, and sitting is the present participle.
The verb seek only has one past tense form, sought. Sought is both the past tense and past participle of seek (present tense).
The verb, breed, has two forms: breed and bred. That’s it; the past tense and participle forms are both bred.