What’s the Past Tense of Stick? Stick or Stuck?
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.
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 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.
To steal (present tense), stole (simple past tense); and stolen (past participle).
Sting (not the man/singer, the verb) is the simple present. Stung is the past simple and past participle form of sting, (I was stung by a bee, and now my arm is swollen.)
Throw is the present tense. Threw is the simple past, and thrown is the past participle.
The past tense and past participle forms of the verb lose are both lost.
To wear is the present tense; wore is the past tense, and worn is the past participle form of the verb.
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.
Taken (not the Liam Neeson movie) is the past participle form of take. Take is the present tense, and took is the past tense.
To freeze is the present, froze is the past, and had frozen is the past participle form of the verb freeze.