Question

What is the ‘drive’ past tense?

Answer 1

Hint: There are three tenses for verbs: past, present, and future. Things that have already happened are described (e.g., earlier in the day, yesterday, last week, three years ago). The present tense is used to describe events that are currently happening or are in progress. The future tense is a verb tense that is used to describe a future action or state of being.

Complete answer:
The simple past is a verb tense that is used to express past events. Example: He won a gold medal in debate.

You can also talk about a former state of being, like how someone felt about something, using the simple past. This is commonly expressed with the simple past tense of the verb to be, coupled with an adjective, noun, or prepositional phrase.

For regular verbs, add the suffix -ed to the base form (or just -d if the root form already ends in an e). Things grow more tricky when it comes to irregular verbs. The past tense of several irregular verbs is identical to the root form. There is a formula for making regular and irregular past verbs negative (except for the verb to be). + The formula is: [root form of verb]. Instead of did not, you can use the contraction didn't.
The forms of ‘drive’:

Infinitive	To drive
Present tense	Drive/drives
Past tense	Drove
Present participle	Driving
Past participle	Driven

Note: We have four sorts of past tense verbs based on each tense's four characteristics that talk about the conclusion of the event or action:
- Past simple tense.
- Tense of the Past Continuous.
- Past Perfect Tense is the past tense of a verb.
- Past Perfect Continuous Tense is a kind of the past perfect tense.