Whats the definition of kept?

Whats the definition of kept?

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past tense and past participle of keep.

Q. What kind of word is kept?

verb. simple past tense and past participle of keep.

Q. What is the verb of kept?

verb (used with object), kept, keep·ing. to hold or retain in one’s possession; hold as one’s own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change. to hold or have the use of for a period of time: You can keep it for the summer. to hold in a given place; store: You can keep your things in here.

Q. What part of speech is kept?

part of speech: transitive verb. inflections: keeps, keeping, kept.

Q. Will be keep or kept?

The word keep is defined as “to have or retain possession,” of an object, or “place an object” somewhere. The past tense and past participle of the word keep is “kept”. The word keep when used as a verb, requires an object which can be seen in the following sentences in the present tense. You may keep the change.

Q. Is Kept past or present tense?

Keep verb forms

InfinitivePresent ParticiplePast Tense
keepkeepingkept

Q. Had kept or have kept?

To keep, active and passive voice

TenseActive voicePassive voice
Simple pastkeptwas kept
Past continuouswas keepingwas being kept
Present perfecthave kepthave been kept
Past perfecthad kepthad been kept

Q. How do you use the word ate?

Simple rule: If there is another word between the person doing the eating and the verb, then use “eaten”; otherwise, it’s just “ate” — so you’d say “Bill ate his dinner”, but “Bill has eaten his dinner”.

Q. What is the present tense of love?

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE

Q. Why we use present tense with did?

So that is how you can understand why the “did” is there. It’s an auxiliary which is inserted to replace a null auxiliary once subject-aux inversion takes place (do affixing), and at the same time “steals” the past tense from the main verb, because auxiliaries have to carry the tense when they are present!

Q. Do and does in simple present tense?

We use do and does to make questions with the present simple. We use does for the third person singular (she/he/it) and do for the others. We use do and does with question words like where, what and when: Where do Angela and Rita live?

Q. How do you explain present tense?

The present tense is used to describe things that are happening right now, or things that are continuous. The future tense describes things that have yet to happen (e.g., later, tomorrow, next week, next year, three years from now).

Q. What is timeless present?

‘Timeless’ here refers to the use of the present tense when you refer to for example what a writer has written, which has no relation to any particular time as in: Shakespeare describes the experiences of an old man going insane in his tragedy, King Lear.

Q. What is the formula of past tense?

Before + subject + simple past tense + subject + had + past participle form of the verb +. . . . Before I went to the office, I finished some business with her. Before she went home, she had taken a test.

Q. What are the examples of past tense?

Examples of the Types of Past Tenses

The 4 Past TensesExamples
simple past tenseI went to work. The Martians landed near the aqueduct.
past progressive tenseI was going to work. We were painting the door when a bird struck the window.
past perfect tenseI had gone to work. Rover had eaten the pie before we got home.
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