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12 Μαΐ 2014 · Personally, I pronounce the past tense of "beat" (to win at a game) as /biːt/, to sound identical to the infinitive. However, I have heard a few people under the age of 30 and from either the west or outer south of Melbourne pronounce it as /bet/.
16 Ιουλ 2020 · The present tense of beat is "beat," and the past tense of beat is also "beat." All usages of this word are pronounced the same way: bēt (beet) Also, natural English speakers would more often use the phrase "beat up," rather than "beat" alone, because "beat" could be used for its second definition of:
13 Απρ 2017 · The standard spelling for both the present and the past tense is "beat"—as far as I know, this doesn't change for people who use the pronunciation /bɛt/ for the past tense. The existence of accents that use the pronunciation /bɛt/ for the past tense of beat does not seem to be widely known among speakers who use the pronunciation /biːt ...
23 Σεπ 2014 · Beat up is a phrasal verb with the completive up particle; it means 'beat to submission' and refers to the results as well as the action. It's an idiom common with children. For the slang category you request, you're almost on the money; but some other lexical changes might improve it: He was a kid that got beat up a lot. That sounds normal to me.
This is a specific use of the verb tense known as the historical present, which means using a present tense verb to describe an event that has already happened. The excellent language podcast Lexicon Valley devoted an episode to it. They primarily discussed its use in fiction and descriptions of more remote events but their insights apply here ...
9 Ιαν 2021 · The standard past tense form of post is posted. There are some verbs ending in [st] where standard English uses a past tense form ending in [st] (it is possible to analyze this as a simplification of [stt], with [t] as an irregular past tense marker instead of the syllabic [əd] that regularly appears with verbs ending in [t] or [d]).
As far as I know the independent clause, "I would have XXX", is an example of the conditional perfect tense. If the XXX is been plus a gerund (ends with "ing") then this would be conditional perfect progressive tense. The second or dependent clause, "if you would XXX', is in conditional tense.
The past tense is "synced". "Sunk" is the past tense of "sink" which sounds the same but is a completely different word. "Synced" appears to have made its way into dictionaries: Merriam-Webster; Wiktionary; TheFreeDictionary; Dictionary.com; and I am sure many others; Edit: As others have pointed out, "synch" and "synched" are acceptable variants.
24 Μαρ 2020 · A weird use of the Past Perfect tense. 2. What's the meaning of "Fairytale meets beat meets counterculture ...
1 Μαΐ 2011 · Span is an older strong past tense form of spin — this is the past tense form that existed in the older Germanic ancestors of English. In German, for example, the past tense of spinnen is still spann. In English, span has mostly fallen out of use in favor of spun for both the past participle and simple
