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forget                             forgot                        forgotten


                       go                                went                           gone

                      give                               gave                           given


                      hide                                hid                          hidden

                      know                              knew                           known


                       lie                                lay                            laid

                       ring                              rang                           rung


                       run                                ran                            run

                       see                               saw                            seen

                      sing                               sang                           sung


                      take                               took                           taken

                      tear                               tore                            torn


                      wake                              woke                           waken

                      write                             wrote                          written







           The inside vowels of some verbs are changed to form the past tense. But apart from this,

           they also need a final -d or -t which are not there in present tense. Such verbs are also
           called weak verbs.




                Examples :       Present Tense                        Past Tense

                                        buy                              bought

                                        catch                            caught


                                        sell                              sold







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