• List Of Past Tense Words

Forms With most verbs the past tense is formed by adding -ed: call >> called; like >> liked; want >> wanted; work >> worked But there are a lot of irregular past tenses in English. Hello patph0510, I think the past simple is the most likely choice here, and we would only use the present tense if we wanted to emphasise that we consider it to be still a current event in some way. For example: The existence of slavery in the US was a national disgrace. [past as slavery existed in the past] The existence of slavery in the US is a national disgrace.

List Of Past Tense Words

[present because the speaker wants to emphasise that the disgrace remains even though slavery ended] Peter The LearnEnglish Team • or to post comments.

Present-Past-Past Participle list English Past Tense, Tenses English, English Grammar. English Verbs List, English Grammar Tenses, English Vocabulary. 100 Most Common English Verbs List. This is a list of the 100 most common verbs in English. If you are learning English it would be useful to learn these popular verbs first. Click though to see full conjugation tables of each verb. Irregular verb forms are in red.