Các dạng của động từ
Dạng nguyên
/riːd/
Past Simple
/red/
Past Participle
/red/
Câu ví dụ
Dạng nguyên · read
- I read at least one book every month.
Past Simple · read
- She read the entire novel in one weekend.
- Did you read it before lunch?
- I read it as soon as I possibly could.
- We read it together earlier this week.
Past Participle · read
- This article has been read by millions of people.
- By the time we arrived, they had read everything.
- We have never read anything quite like it.
- He has read it many times before.
Cụm từ thường gặp
read aloud
to say written words out loud
read between the lines
to find a hidden meaning
Thì chính
| Hiện tại đơn | Quá khứ đơn | Hiện tại hoàn thành |
|---|---|---|
I read he / she / it reads | I read | I have read |
| Hiện tại tiếp diễn:I am reading · he / she / it is reading | ||
Hướng dẫn ngữ pháp
The verb "read" belongs to the AAA group — all three principal parts are identical: "read" / "read" / "read". The spelling never changes, whether you use it in the present tense, past simple, or as a past participle in a perfect or passive construction.
Use "read" in the present to describe habits, facts, or scheduled events: "We read the figures every quarter." The same form serves as the past simple for completed actions: "They read the budget before noon." With auxiliary verbs it functions as the past participle: "She has already read her quota." Because all three forms look the same, an auxiliary (have, has, had) or a past-time marker (yesterday, last year) provides the tense signal.
AAA verbs are mostly short, high-frequency words ending in -t or -d, such as cost, cut, hit, hurt, let, put, set, and spread. Because they never inflect, you only need to learn one spelling. The difficulty is that context — an auxiliary verb, a time adverb, or the surrounding narrative — must indicate which tense is intended.
Quick-reference rule: when "read" follows have, has, or had, it is acting as a past participle ("she has read the price twice"); when it follows did not or appears in a question with did, it is the infinitive in a past-tense structure ("did they read it correctly?"); in all other uses it is most likely present simple or a base-form infinitive.
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