This document provides information and rules for forming verbs in the simple past tense in English. It discusses four main rules for adding "-ed" or changing the verb form for regular past tense verbs, along with exceptions. Several common irregular past tense verbs are also listed with their base form, past form, and past participle. The document concludes with charts showing conjugations for the present, past and future tense of the verb "to be" and examples of present and past tense forms of other sample verbs.
20. end in the sounds
t or d / Id /
Need needed
Hate hated
Date dated
Seat seated
Dedicate dedicated
Decide decided
Land landed
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End ended
Punt punted
Rest rested
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Basic Form Past Participle
Be was / were been
become Became become
Bear Bore borne / born
Beat Beat beaten
/i/
Begin
/e/
Began
/A/
begun
Break Broke broken
Bring Brought brought
Built Built built
Buy Bought bought
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Basic Form Past Participle
Catch Caught caught
choose Chose chosen
Come Came come
Cost Cost cost
Cut Cut cut
Draw Drew Drawn
Do Did done
Drink Drank drunk
Drive Drove driven
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Basic Form Past Participle
Eat Ate eaten
Fall Fell fallen
Find Found found
Fit Fit fit
Fight fought fought
Fly Flew flown
Fall Fell fallen
Feel Felt felt
Forget Forgot forgotten
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Basic Form Past Participle
Get Got gotten
Give Gave given
Go Went gone
Grind Ground ground
grow
(grow up)
grew
(grew up)
grown
(grown up)
Hang Hung hung
Have Had had
Hear Heard heard
Hide Hid hidden
Hit Hit hit
hold held held
Hurt Hurt hurt
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Basic Form Past Participle
keep Kept kept
know Knew knew
leave Left left
lose Lost Lost
make Made Made
mean Meant Meant
meet Met Met
Pay Paid Paid
Put Put Put
quit Quit Quit
read Read Read
Ride Rode Ridden
Run Run Run
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Basic Form Past Participle
Say Said Said
See Saw Seen
seek Sought Sought
Sell Sold Sold
send Sent Sent
sing Sang Sung
Sit Sat Sat
shake Shook Shaken
shine Shone Shone
shoot Shot Shot
sleep Slept Slept
speak Spoke Spoken
spend Spent Spent
stand Stood Stood
steal Stole Stolen
swim Swam Swum
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Basic Form Past Participle
take Took Taken
teach Taught Taught
Tell Told Told
think Thought Thought
throw Threw Thrown
understand understood Understood
wake up woke up woken up
wear Wore Worn
Win Won Won
write Wrote Written
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Present, Past and Future
I am
You /we /they are
He /she /it is
I / he / she / it was
You /we /they were
I
You /we /they will be
He /she /it
There is
There are
There was
There were
There will be
I /you /we /they write
He / she / it writes /lives
I
You wrote
He
We lived
They
I
You
He will write
We
They