Question

What is the past participle form of the verb ‘Bet’?
a)Beat
b)Beaten
c)Bet
d)Betted

Answer 1

Hint: For regular verbs, adding -ed to the base form creates the past participle. For example, the past participle of the cook is cooked. Past participles formed from irregular verbs may have endings like -en, -t, -d, and –n also.

Complete answer:

The three forms of ‘bet’ are – bet, bet, and bet.
Therefore, the correct answer would be an option – ‘c’.
Why the other options are wrong?
Well, let us look into them to understand why.
Option a contains the word – beat, it is the simple past tense for the word beat and the past participle tense for this word is – beaten. Therefore, this is not the correct option.
Option b contains the word beaten, as I told you earlier it is the past participle tense for the verb beat, that is why we cannot choose it.
Option c contains the word bet, and we have stated earlier that it is the correct answer. And
Option d contains the word betted, this is considered as the past tense of the word bet. Therefore, this option is also invalid to us as a correct solution.
Therefore, ‘c’ is our answer/ solution for the above question.
We can also look into an example to understand how the word ‘bet’ is used. For e.g. - he had a bet on the winning team and he won a thousand rupees.


Note: Be very clear with the rules regarding verbs before attempting the question. That way you will not get confused between two different and plausible answers.