Question

What is the past tense of the verb "go"?

Answer 1

Hint: A verb is a type of word (part of speech) that describes an event or a condition. A verb is the most important aspect of a sentence: every sentence has one verb. In Basic English, there are sixteen verbs. These are the words: be, do, get, come, go, see, seem, give, take, keep, make, put, send, say, let, and get.

Complete answer:
The past tense is generally used to describe events that have occurred in the past. The main rule of past tense is that there is only one past tense form for any verb in English. This contrasts to other languages where the verb ending changes with each subject, such as Spanish, French, and Italian.

In English, for most of the words the past tense is formed by taking the present tense of a verb and adding the suffix -ed. We can understand this, through an example to make it clear. To make the past tense of the verb "talk," add -ed at the end of the word to form "talked." Therefore, the past tense of talk is talked.

But for the word, “go” we do not add -ed at the end, as it is not right. Instead for the word “go”, the past tense of the verb becomes “went.” The word itself gets changed.

Therefore, the past tense of the verb "go" is “went.”


Note: Here the given verb is ‘go’ where it's simple past tense is ‘went’ and past participle is gone’.

There are four main forms of past tense in English:
- Past simple
- Past continuous
- Past perfect
- Past perfect continuous