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The Past Tense of Eat: Ate and Eaten, and Why "Have You Eaten" Sounds Like "Are You Eating"

Past Tense of Do: Did, Done, and the Vanishing N'T That Reverses Your Sentence

The Past Tense of Choose: Chose and Chosen, the Two O's That Trick Eye and Ear

Buy's Past Tense Is Bought — One R Sound Away From Brought

The Past Tense of Teach: Taught, One Consonant Away From Thought

Past Tense of Ride: Rode and Ridden — How Ride, Write, and Drive Travel the Same Road

The Past Tense of Have: Had for Both Forms, and the 'd Your Ear Keeps Missing

Fly, Flew, Flown: The Past Tense of Fly and Its Sound-Alikes

The Past Tense of Feel Is Felt — And the Fine Line Between Felt, Fell, and Fill

The Past Tense of Bring Is Brought, Not Brang

The Past Tense of Wear: Wore, Worn, and 4 Words That Sound Identical in a Sentence

The Past Tense of Think Is Thought — Here's Why Your Ear Hears Taught

Took or Taken? Cracking the Past Tense of Take by Ear

The Past Tense of 'Read': Same Spelling, Sounds Like 'Red'

The Past Tense of Hold Is Held — and Why It Gets Misheard as Helped

The Past Tense of Help Is Helped — And You Can Barely Hear It

The Past Tense of Tell Is Told — and the D Disappears Right When You Need It

The Past Tense of Leave Is Left, But Left Plays Four Roles in a Sentence

Fall's Past Tense Is Fell — and Three Sound-Alikes Keep Pulling It Astray


