Question

The past tense of ‘Seek’ is Seeked’
A) Yes
B) No

Answer 1

Hint: Past tense verbs refer to past actions or events. They may be regular verbs that simply end in a "d" or "ed," or irregular verbs that change their spelling to indicate the past tense. For instance, "beat" becomes (I beat him at baseball.)

Complete answer:
Past tense – The past tense is a grammatical tense that denotes an event that occurred in the past. The English verbs sang, went, and washed are examples of past tense verbs. Most languages have a past tense, and others have several forms that indicate how long ago something happened.

Verbs in the past tense can be divided into the following categories:
- Simple Past Tense
- Past Continuous Tense
- Past Perfect Tense
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense.

Seek means - to look for or obtain something, to make a request of others.

The verb seek is in the past tense.
- Seeks is the third-person singular simple present indicative form.
- Seeking is the present participle of seek.
- Seek is the past participle of seek.
-Sought is the past tense of seek.

Hence, the past tense of seek is sought not seeked. So, Option B. No is the correct answer.

Note: Structures of past tense -
- Simple Past Tense - Subject + Verb 2 (V2) + Object
- Past Continuous - Subject + Was/ Were + Verb 1 (V1) + ing + Object
- Past Perfect - Subject + Had + Verb 3 (V3) + Object
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense - Subject + had been + verb 1 + ing + object