The past tense is the tense we use to express an

action in the past: We ate dinner. I spoke to Mr. Jones.

Mary walked all the way to the library.

begin

began

begun

bite

bit

bitten

break

broke

broken

bring

brought

brought

catch

caught

caught

choose

chose

chosen

The past participles for regular verbs are the same as

their

come

came

come

past forms (look-looked-looked and study-studiedstudied),

do

did

done

drink

drank

drunk

drive

drove

driven

eat

ate

eaten

fall

fell

fallen

The Past Participle

feel

felt

felt

(usually ending -ed, -d, -t, -en, or -n)

fly

flew

flown

freeze

froze

frozen

get

got

got or gotten

go

went

gone

The past participle is a form of the verb but not a

tense. It cannot be used alone as a verb. The past
participles of the verbs in the examples above:
eaten/spoken/walked. You can see that regular verbs
that form their past tense endings with -ed also have
an -ed form as their past participles.

for example. For irregular verbs, the past and past

participle
forms are different (for example, be- was/were-been
and
go-went-gone).

Forms of Irregular Participles

Verb
become

Past
became

Past Participle
become

know

knew

known

sleep

slept

slept

lay

laid

laid

speak

spoke

spoken

lead

led

led

steal

stole

stolen

lend

lent

lent

swim

swam

swum

lie

lay

lain

take

took

taken

lose

lost

lost

throw

threw

thrown

ride

rode

ridden

wear

wore

worn

ring

rang

rung

win

won

won

rise

rose

risen

write

wrote

written

run

ran

run

say

said

said

see

saw

seen

set

set

set

shake

shook

shaken

sing

sang

sung

sink

sank or sunk

sunk

sit

sat

sat