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We are hoping to make your life easier, at least when it comes to making your English learning experience easier anyway, and this article is focusing on just that! The past tense of ‘make’ The past tense of “make” is “made” in simple past form. In other forms, it’s expressed as “have/has made” for present…
There has been a lot in the media about how ChatGPT will affect Education and the vast majority of those are tales of woe and calamity. However, we take a difference view and think just like other technologies that have come before it and most certainly will come after it, ChatGPT is just another tool…
Sink is a very versatile verb in English, and can be used to mean a number of different things. Broadly speaking, the word “sink” refers to the downward movement of something from a higher position to a lower one, and is very often associated with objects moving through water. The simple past tense of “sink”…
In its verb form, the English word “begin” refers to the action of starting something, or undertaking the first section or part of something. It is not to be confused with its noun form “beginning.” The simple past tense form of begin is “began” and its past participle is “begun.” Besides its more formal and…
The English verb “bear” has multiple meanings but is invariably connected with carrying or shouldering a burden or responsibility, as well as enduring some sort of hardship or difficulty. It can be used in a literal or physical sense, and also in a more abstract sense. Bear is something of an irregular verb when it…
The English verb “to freeze” might be most closely associated with the coldest season of the year, but of course it carries a wealth of different meanings, some of which we will explore below. While the infinitive is “freeze,” the simple past tense is “froze” and the past participle is “frozen.” The present participle is…
The verb “to bite” in English can have a variety of meanings, ranging from a literal sense relating to the action of clamping down on something with one’s teeth or mouth, to a more figurative sense where we use it to describe pain felt at the onset of things like sharp winter winds. The simple…
The verb “speak” is one of the first ones that many learn when learning English as a second language. Even when it is our mother tongue, learning to speak is one of the biggest milestones in our early development, and thus the word has a firm place in the imaginations of English speakers everywhere. The…
The verb “dream” refers to the act of experiencing thoughts, images and often strange but real-feeling happenings while asleep or falling asleep. Besides this, it can also refer to any time one indulges in moments of fantasy or imagination while awake. The latter is also sometimes known as “daydreaming.” The past tense of “dream” is…
The verb “rise” refers to the action of something either getting up from a sitting position (or lying down, or kneeling), or simply moving from a lower position to a higher one. It is not to be confused with the verb “raise” which while holding similar meanings, refers more to the act of someone or…
