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Word forms: recasts, recastinglanguage note: The form recast is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. If you recast something, you change it by organizing it in a different way. To recast an actor’s role means to give the role to another actor. …
The verb cast is conventionally uninflected in the past tense and as a past participle. Casted is an old form—examples are easily found in texts from every century from the 14th to the present—but it has given way to cast in modern English.
Examples of recast in a Sentence When she quit the movie, I was recast in the leading role. The director recast some of the actors in the play. You should recast the last sentence in your essay to make it clearer. He recast his political image to fit the times.
The past tense of cast is also cast. The third-person singular simple present indicative form of cast is casts. The present participle of cast is casting. The past participle of cast is cast.
Word forms: puts, puttinglanguage note: The form put is used in the present tense and is the past tense and past participle. Put is used in a large number of expressions that are explained under other words in this dictionary.
make verb forms
Infinitive | Present Participle | Past Tense |
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know | knowing | knew or knowed (dialect), |
Verbs come in three tenses: past, present, and future. The past is used to describe things that have already happened (e.g., earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous.
Regular Past Tense Verbs
Present Tense | + -d or -ed | Past Tense |
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walk | + -ed | walked |
pick | + -ed | picked |
move | + -d | moved |
push | + -ed | pushed |
A fun way to review spelling and past/present tense verbs is to play the chain spelling game. All the students have to stand up and then you can say a verb in the present tense. The students have to take turns spelling out the equivalent verb in the past tense.
Past tense verbs refer to actions or events in the past. They can be regular verbs that simply end with a “d” or an “ed” or they can be irregular and change their spelling to show the past tense.
To change a regular verb into its past tense form, we normally add –ED to the end of the verb. There are some exceptions with a slight change in spelling which you can see here: Spelling of words ending in ED.
Ask your child to talk about past events like birthday parties, going on a trip, or event from his day. While he’s doing this, make sure he’s using the past tense. If he forgets, you can use the same cues as you did in step two by telling him that it’s something that already happened so we have to change the word.
Children master many irregular past tense forms between 25 and 46 months. However, children continue learning irregular past tense verb forms beyond the preschool years.
If you want to remember easily, you can think of was/were as the past tense form of the auxiliary verbs am, is and are. Generally, “was is used for singular objects and “were” is used for plural objects. So, you will use “was” with I, he, she and it while you will use “were” with you, we and they.
Was or were worksheet | Beginner level
Did is used as part of the sentence structure for questions, with the past simple tense. Be – Am – Is – Are – Was – Were. Have – Has – Had. ‘DO’, ‘BE’ and ‘HAVE’ are the English auxiliary verbs used in a negative structure, a question or to show tense.