Past Tense Verbs

What are past tense verbs?
-Verbs are a part of speech that states an action or expresses a state of being.
-If they are past tense verbs, then they are verbs that have happened, or happened in the past.

How do we form past tense verbs?

Regular verbs are placed in the past tend by adding either a d or an ed to the end

Examples:

Present Tense	+ d or + ed	Past Tense
walk	+ ed	walked
move	+ d	moved
push	+ ed	pushed
smile	+ d	smiled

If a word ends in "y", the "y" is dropped and an "ied" is added

Examples:

Present Tense	- y and + ied	Past Tense
try	- y and + ied	tried
spy	- y and + ied	spied

There are such things as Irregular Past Tense Verbs

These verbs are not verbs where you can simply add a d or an ed to the ending
These verbs are unpredictable and do not have structure to the past tense, therefore when in doubt use a dictionary

Examples:

Present Tense	+ ?	Past Tense
drive	+ ?	drove
eat	+ ?	ate
have	+ ?	had
steal	+ ?	stole
cost	+ ?	cost

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