What’s the Past Tense of Write? Wrote or Written?
Wrote is the simple past tense of write; written is the past participle verb form.
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).
Wrote is the simple past tense of write; written is the past participle verb form.
To deal (simple present tense), dealt (simple past) have/has/had dealt (past participle).
To bend has two verb forms, ‘bend’ is the present tense, and ‘bent’ is the past simple and past participle of bend.
To go is in the present tense. Went is the past simple tense, and ‘have gone’ is the past participle of go.
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.
See is the present tense, saw is the past tense and seen is the past participle verb form.
Shrink is the present tense, shrank is the simple past, and shrunk is the past participle.
To speak is the present simple tense. Spoke is the simple past tense of speak, and ‘have/had/had spoken’ is the past participle.
Come is the present tense and past participle form of the verb. Came is the past simple tense of come.
The present tense verb ‘to lend’ only has one past tense and past participle verb form, which is lent.