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ate
Eat changes to ate.
Class 3 · English Medium · Cambridge · English
Tenses and irregular verbs
Explore tenses and irregular verbs with an example and your own answers.
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Time words help select tense. Some past-tense verbs are irregular and do not simply add ed.
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Today I go. Yesterday I went. Tomorrow I will go.
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wrote
The irregular past form is wrote.
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will come
Will is followed by come, the base verb.
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learned
Learned is a past form of learn.
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took
Take has the irregular past form took.
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Yesterday she went to the pond and saw ducks.
Change the time and both verbs consistently; another suitable past time is valid.
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