Past Tense of Enter

The third-person singular simple present indicative form of control is controls. The present participle of control is controlling. The past participle of control is controlled.

past tense of enter is entered.

Irregular verbs

Indicative

past tense of broke is broked.

The first is incorrect. When using past perfect you must always use “have” in simple past and the verb in “past participle”. “Broke” is the past tense form of “to break.” “Broken” is the past participle. Therefore, “they had broken” is the only correct way to write it.

Present progressive tense uses a present participle “I am breaking”, and present perfect tense uses the past participle, but with “have”, e.g., “I have broken”. Wikipedia tells me that “I am broken” is a stative passive sentence construct.

Conjugation of verb ‘Break’

Verb Forms of Break

[transitive] break something to do something that is against the law; to not keep a promise, etc. to break the law/rules/conditions to break an agreement/a contract/a promise/your word to break an appointment (= not to come to it) He was breaking the speed limit (= traveling faster than the law allows).

Gerund: The verbal breaking serves as a noun. It is also the object of the preposition of. (Past) participle: Implied in this sentence is the verbal phrase, that has been preceding the verbal, broken, making it a past participle, which indicates something that happened and was completed in the past.

To answer the original question: Yes, gerunds all end with -ing, simply by definition. A gerund is, in Latin, a form of the verb which can be construed as (i.e. has functional characteristics of) a noun – it can act as subject or object of a verb, for example, or can take a plural ending.

One way to spot a gerund is to notice that they always end in -ing. Just remember they’re not the only players in the game ending in -ing. Present participles (verbs indicating continuous activity) also end in -ing. For example: “I was sitting there.” Sitting looks like and acts like a verb in this instance.

A whole gerund phrase functions in a sentence just like a noun, and can act as a subject, an object, or a predicate nominative. If you look up the definition of gerund (pronounced JER-und), you will find that it means “an English noun formed from a verb by adding -ing”; that is, a present participle used as a noun.

There are no categorical antonyms for gerund. The noun gerund is defined as: A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently.)

Used appropriately, gerunds add diversity to one’s sentences and reduce repetition in sentence structure. Warning writers to avoid gerunds is somewhat like the warnings regarding ly words. One must avoid overkill in gerund use, but used appropriately they make one’s writing more fluid and lyrical.

Since gerunds are not verbs, they cannot replace verbs. A sentence that contains only a gerund is actually missing a main verb. Any sentence on the SAT or the ACT that includes only a gerund is automatically incorrect.

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Summary of Verb Tenses

The past tense of play is played.

Past Perfect Tense. The PAST PERFECT TENSE indicates that an action was completed (finished or “perfected”) at some point in the past before something else happened. This tense is formed with the past tense form of “to have” (HAD) plus the past participle of the verb (which can be either regular or irregular in form):

Both are correct, but in a context. “I had played the game” can be used when we have another clause or context in the past to show that the playing of the game took place before that happening. “I have played the game” is correct when we refer to a recent time.

We use the simple past to say what happened in the past, often in sequential order. The past perfect expresses events and actions that occurred prior to another past action (usually expressed in the simple past).

Normally past perfect is only used in a sentence with past simple, but I’ve come across sentences like this one: ‘The ageing thug had previously claimed he ‘hadn’t thought of the consequences’. ‘ ‘They monitored him closely cos they feared he would get brain bleeding.

Exercise on Past Perfect Simple

1. The storm destroyed the sandcastle that we (build) .
2. He (not / be) to Cape Town before 1997.
3. When she went out to play, she (do / already) her homework.
4. My brother ate all of the cake that our mum (make) .
5. The doctor took off the plaster that he (put on) six weeks before.

These two tenses are both used to talk about things that happened in the past. However we use past perfect to talk about something that happened before another action in the past, which is usually expressed by the past simple. For example: “I had already eaten my dinner when he called.”

You can use a while clause with either the past perfect or the simple past. It is not the while clause that determines this. As a stand alone sentence: “While we were away, our apartment was/had been burgled” are both correct.

The modal verbs can and could represent the ability of a person or thing in doing something. However, there is a difference in their usage, as ‘can’ is used in present situation, whereas we can use ‘could’ for talking about a past ability. Both are followed by a base form of the verb.

We use could to show that something is possible, but not certain:

• They could come by car. (= Maybe they will come by car.)
• It can be very cold here in winter.
• That can’t be true.
• It’s ten o’clock.
• It could be very cold there in winter.
• They know the way here.
• She can speak several languages.
• I can see you.

Can, like could and would, is used to ask a polite question, but can is only used to ask permission to do or say something (“Can I borrow your car?” “Can I get you something to drink?”). Could is the past tense of can, but it also has uses apart from that–and that is where the confusion lies.

We use can to express possibility or to question possibilities: We can go to Rome in June because both of us have a week off work. (It is possible for us to go to Rome because we don’t have to work in June.)

The definition of could is often used in the place of “can” to show a little doubt. An example of could is someone asking if they can help someone. An example of could is saying that something is able to happen if someone does something. verb.

—used to indicate what someone said or thought about what was going to happen or be done. —used to talk about a possible situation that has not happened or that you are imagining. —used with have to talk about something that did not happen or was not done.

We use would as the past of will, to describe past beliefs about the future: I thought we would be late, so we would have to take the train.