Các dạng của động từ
Dạng nguyên
/send/
Past Simple
/sent/
Past Participle
/sent/
Câu ví dụ
Dạng nguyên · send
- I send my grandmother a postcard from every trip.
Past Simple · sent
- He sent the email to the wrong address.
- We sent it together earlier this week.
- She sent without any hesitation.
- They sent it again the following morning.
Past Participle · sent
- The package has been sent and should arrive Friday.
- She has just sent the very same thing.
- By the time we arrived, they had sent everything.
- We have never sent anything quite like it.
Cụm từ thường gặp
send a message
to deliver a written note
send regards
to pass on good wishes
Thì chính
| Hiện tại đơn | Quá khứ đơn | Hiện tại hoàn thành |
|---|---|---|
I send he / she / it sends | I sent | I have sent |
| Hiện tại tiếp diễn:I am sending · he / she / it is sending | ||
Hướng dẫn ngữ pháp
The verb "send" follows the ABB pattern: the past simple and past participle share one form ("sent"), while the base form ("send") is different. ABB is the most common pattern among English irregular verbs — roughly half of all irregulars fall here, so mastering this group pays dividends across the whole language.
Use the past simple "sent" to talk about a completed action or event at a definite moment in the past. It stands alone as the main verb — no auxiliary is needed. Common accompanying time expressions include yesterday, last week, ago, and when: "She sent the whole report by herself." The action is seen as finished and anchored to a specific past time.
The past participle "sent" always works together with an auxiliary verb. It appears in: (1) the present perfect with have/has — "I have sent this several times before"; (2) the past perfect with had — "By the time we called, they had already sent"; (3) passive voice — "The decision was sent by the board." Never use "sent" as a standalone past-tense verb without an auxiliary.
Memory tip: because "sent" and "sent" are the same, you only need to memorise one past form. Many ABB verbs follow recognisable sound shifts — a large group ends in -ought (bring→brought, buy→bought, catch→caught, fight→fought, seek→sought, teach→taught, think→thought), and another group shows a vowel shift plus -t (feel→felt, keep→kept, leave→left, mean→meant, sleep→slept). Identifying which sub-group "send" belongs to can make the form easier to remember long-term.
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