Sweeped or Swept? What’s the Past Tense of Sweep?
Sweep is present tense, swept is both the past tense and past participle form of the verb sweep.
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What’s the Past Tense of Mistake? Is it Mistook or Mistaken?
Both mistook and mistaken are past forms of the present tense verb, mistake. Mistook is the simple past tense, whereas mistaken is the past participle form.
What’s the Past Tense of Mean? Mean or Meant?
The irregular verb mean only has one past verb form: meant. Meant is both the simple past tense and past participle form of the verb ‘mean’.
What’s the Past Tense of Lying Down? Lay down or Laid down?
The past tense of lie down is lay down, and the past participle is lain. The past tense of lay (something) down on (something) is laid.
What’s the Past Tense of Weep? Weeped or Wept?
Hopefully you haven’t wept over not knowing the past tense of weep. Here’s a hint, it’s in the previous sentence: wept and had wept are the past tense and past participle of weep.
What’s the Past Tense of Forget? Forgot, Forgotten?
The verb forget has three main forms: forget (present), forgot (past) and forgotten (past participle). Read this post to refresh your memory on the verb, to forget.
What is the Past Tense of Forbid? Forbid, Forbade, Forbidden.
Forbid has three verb forms: forbid, forbade, and forbidden. Forbade is the simple past tense, and forbidden is the past participle form of the verb.
What’s the Past Tense of Shine? Shined or Shone?
To shine, intransitively, has shone as a past tense. Shined is the past tense of the transitive verb, to shine a light on something.
Is it Spit or Spat, Paddy Whack? What’s the Past Tense of Spit?
Does he spit rhymes or spat rhymes? What’s the past tense of spit? The answer is spat.
What’s the Past Tense of Begin?
The word (and verb) to begin (present tense), means “to start doing something; to do the first part of something”, as stated by… Read More »What’s the Past Tense of Begin?