What’s the Past Tense of Read?
The present, past tense and past participle forms of read are all read, though the past tense forms are pronounced differently.
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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).
Is it Rang or Rung? What’s the Past Tense of Ring?
To ring someone, as in ‘phone a friend’, is the present tense. Rang is the past tense, and rung is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Swim? Swam vs. Swum
To swim is in the present tense. Swam is in the past tense, and had/have/has swum is the past participle.
What’s the Past Tense of Win? (Win vs. Won)
The verb, to win, is present tense. Win only has two forms: win and won. Won is the past simple and past participle.
What is the Past Tense of Teach?
The verb teach has two forms altogether: to teach (present tense), and taught (past tense and past participle form of the verb, teach).
What’s the Past Tense of Tell?
The verb tell has two forms: tell and told. Told is the past tense, and the past participle form of tell.
Take, Took, or Taken: What’s the Correct Past Tense of Take?
Taken (not the Liam Neeson movie) is the past participle form of take. Take is the present tense, and took is the past tense.
What’s the Past Tense of the Verb ‘Sting’?
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.)
What’s the Past Tense of Strike? Struck or Stricken?
The past tense and participle of strike is struck. The adjectival past participle is stricken, as in, a grief-stricken widow.
What’s the Past Tense of Let?
Let is an irregular verb with one past tense form, and that’s let. Let’s is a contraction that combines let + us.
