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 form of make.
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).
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 form of make.
To ‘blow a bubble’, is the present simple tense. ‘I blew the job interview’, is the past simple, and ‘I’ve blown the opportunity,’ is the past participle.
The verb catch has two forms, to catch, and caught, which is both the past tense and participle form of catch.
Bite is present tense, bit is the simple past, and ‘bitten’ is the past participle verb form.
To ride is the present tense. Rode is the simple past, and ridden is the past participle.
The verb buy has two forms: buy and bought. Bought is the past tense and past participle form of buy.
Both sped and speeded are accepted past tense and past participle forms of the verb speed, though sped is the preferred past participle.
To freeze is the present, froze is the past, and had frozen is the past participle form of the verb freeze.
The past tense and past participle forms of the verb lose are both lost.
The verb stick has two forms: stick and stuck. Stick is the present tense; stuck is the past simple and the past participle form of the verb.