Here are four verbs with tricky past tenses. Bear. When your verb has homonyms, its dictionary entry can feel like a maze. When you look up “bear,” for example, you have to skim past all the ...

Is the past tense of "gaslight" gaslighted or gaslit? After a third option went viral, we asked linguists to settle the debate. But it turns out it's complicated.

The past tense of “lie” is downright cruel: It’s “lay.” The past participle is “lain.” Today I lie down. Yesterday I lay down. In the past I have lain down.

The past tense is used for things that have already happened. Past tense verbs often end in '–ed' but not always. I walked to the shop. The present tense is used when something is happening now ...

All verbs have a past, present and future form. Watch the video and play the activity to find out more with this primary English KS1 and KS2 Bitesize guide.