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Questions and answers related to English past tenses: past simple, past progressive, past perfect and past perfect progressive.

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What is the past tense form of posse?

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Posse is a noun. Only verbs have past tenses.

If by chance you meant "possess", it's a weak verb and its past tense is "possessed".

Is written a form of an irregular verb?

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Yes. Written is the past participle of "to write."

write / wrote / written.

They write every day.

They wrote yesterday.

They have written every day.

Write is an irregular verb because the past is not formed by adding -ed to the verb.

regular verb - walk / walked, slice / sliced, talk / talked

irregular verb - write / wrote, eat / ate, run / ran, swim / swam

What is the past tense of hard?

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It doesn't have a past tense as it is an adjective.

What is the past participle of the word build?

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The past participle of the word "build" is "built."

How do you say he choose me for past tense?

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The past tense would be "he chose me".

Ex:

He chose me first in the draft for the dodgeball game yesterday.

What is the simple past tense of meet?

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The simple past tense of meet is met.

What is the past form of sleep?

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When trying to use the word sleep in a past tense style, the proper grammatical version of the word is "slept."

"I was so tired at work this morning as for the past two nights, I have slept horrible" is a sentence which uses the past form of sleep in a correct fashion.

What is the past tense verb in do or did?

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Do is present tense and future tense. "I will do it." "She will do it." "You will do it."

And did is the past tense. "I did it." "He did it." "We all did it."

What is the past participle of heard?

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The past participle of "heard" is "heard."

What is the past progressive tense of sting?

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The past progressive tense of "sting" is "was stinging" or "were stinging."

What is the past tense of quack?

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The past tense of "quack" is "quacked."

What is the past participle of sold?

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"Sold" does not have any past participle; it is the past participle of "sell".

What is past participle of burn?

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The past participle of "burn" is "burned" in American English and "burnt" in British English.

Why is the final consonant not doubled in the past tense form of open and listen?

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The final consonant is not doubled in the past tense form of "open" and "listen" because they do not follow the rule of doubling the final consonant when adding -ed. Instead, they follow different rules for forming their past tense forms.

What is the correct past participle of capture?

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The correct past participle of "capture" is "captured."

What is the past and past participle of bad?

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The past tense of "bad" is "bad" and the past participle is "bad."

What is the past participle of clip?

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The past participle of "clip" is "clipped."

What is the past form and past participle of the word hop?

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The past form of "hop" is "hopped," and the past participle is also "hopped."

Which is the past tense of insist?

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The past tense of "insist" is "insisted."

What is the past participle of discover?

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The past participle of "discover" is "discovered."

What is past simple of look?

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The past simple of "look" is "looked."

What is the present participle of let?

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The present participle of "let" is "letting."

Is fly a regular verb or an irregular verb?

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"Fly" is an irregular verb. Its past tense is "flew" and its past participle is "flown."

What is the past tense of mew?

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For no particular reason, I would go with meow and meowed. If your intent is the verb mew meaning to confine or shut up, the past tense is mewed.

What is the past tense of shovel?

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The past tense of "shovel" is "shoveled" in American English, and "shovelled" in British English.