Past Tense Of See, Past Participle Form of See, V1 V2 V3

Past Tense Of See, Past Participle Form of See, V1 V2 V3

Past Tense of See

In English, the verb ‘see ‘ is used in the sense of grasping something with the eye. It is used as ‘sees’ with’ he, she, it and ‘see’ with other subjects. We use the auxiliary verb ‘don’t’ when making this verb negative. It is used as ‘doesn’t see’ with he, she, it, and ‘don’t see’ with other subjects.

Base Form Examples

• They see with your eyes.
• Tomas doesn’t see your jean.
• Do you see this pen?

V2 Past Simple

The V2 version of the verb ‘see’ is used as ‘saw’. It is used in the same way as all subjects. It is used as ‘did not see’ in the negative sentence and ‘did see’ in the question sentence.

Examples

• They both saw her mother.
• Melissa didn’t see the teacher yesterday?
• Did they see the students?

Verb + Preposition IN List in English

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V3 Past Participle

Since the verb ‘see’ is irregular, the V3 version used in conjunction with perfect tense is known as ‘seen’. V3 is valid in times when verb forms are used, which are different from the past tense but can often be confused.

Examples

• Billy has seen a mouse once.
• You haven’t seen Tomas in 3 months.
• Have you seen her computer?

V1Base Form	V2Simple Past	V3Past Participle
be	was, were	been
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
bet	bet	bet
bid	bid	bid
bite	bit	bitten
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
buy	bought	bought
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
dig	dug	dug
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
drive	drove	driven
drink	drank	drunk
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgiven
freeze	froze	frozen
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown
hang	hung	hung
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt

V1Base Form	V2Simple Past	V3Past Participle
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
lie	lay	lain
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
shut	shut	shut
sink	sank	sunk
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
stand	stood	stood
stink	stank	stunk
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tear	tore	torn
tell	told	told
wake	woke	woken
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written