Past Tense Of Try, Past Participle Form of Try, Try Tried V1 V2 V3

Past Tense Of Try, Past Participle Form of Try, Try Tried V1 V2 V3

Past Tense of Try

We use the word ‘try’ very often in our daily life. In this post, we will examine the details of this widely used expression. If you are ready, let’s start!

Meaning

It means testing and experimenting with a person, an object, or a thought to understand the rate, the value of something, to see if it carries the desired quality, characteristic. It also means starting a job, an action, with a goal to achieve, making an attempt.

Base Form Examples

• You have to try harder to achieve your goal.

V2 Past Simple

The V2 form of the verb try is used as ‘tried’. Also, this word is used in the same way as all subjects.

Examples

• I tried to go out last night, but I could not.
• My family tried to open my home door.

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V3 Past Participle

Since the verb try is regular, the V3 form used in conjunction with Perfect Tenses is used as ‘tried’, as is the V2 form. Tried is used in the case of Past Perfect Tense or Present Perfect Tense. If the question is in the Present Perfect Tense, we use the word try as ‘have + tried’ or ‘has + tried’. The subjects I, you, we are used as ‘have + tried’. The subjects he, she, it, are used as ‘has + tried’. If the Past Perfect Tense is in question, the use is ‘had + tried’ regardless of the subject this time.

Examples

• We have tried to get rid of corruption
• We’ve tried to address this existential itch

V1 Base Form	V2 Simple Past	V3 Past 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