What’s the Past Tense of Steal? Stole or Stolen?
To steal (present tense), stole (simple past tense); and stolen (past participle).
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).
To steal (present tense), stole (simple past tense); and stolen (past participle).
Throw is the present tense. Threw is the simple past, and thrown is the past participle.
The verb, breed, has two forms: breed and bred. That’s it; the past tense and participle forms are both bred.
Cost only has one form, which is cost. Cost is a single-form verb that stays the same no matter the tense.
Hurt is the same in the present, past and past participle form of the verb. It’s an irregular verb with one verb form.
Cut is an irregular verb that has one form for the present, past and past participle. Cutting is the present participle, and cuts is the third-person singular.
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.
Split is an irregular verb with one form and does not change despite tense.
The past tense of grow is grew. The past participle is grown, as in, ‘They have grown so much since we last saw them!’