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Dạng nguyên
/wiːp/
Past Simple
Past Participle
Câu ví dụ
Dạng nguyên · weep
- Some people weep at sad films.
Past Simple · wept
- She wept with joy at the news.
- She wept without any hesitation.
- They wept it again the following morning.
- He didn't weep anything at the meeting.
Past Participle · wept
- Many tears have been wept over this story.
- We have never wept anything quite like it.
- He has wept it many times before.
- I have already wept it more than once.
Thì chính
| Hiện tại đơn | Quá khứ đơn | Hiện tại hoàn thành |
|---|---|---|
I weep he / she / it weeps | I wept | I have wept |
| Hiện tại tiếp diễn:I am weeping · he / she / it is weeping | ||
Hướng dẫn ngữ pháp
The verb "weep" follows the ABB pattern: the past simple and past participle share one form ("wept"), while the base form ("weep") 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 "wept" 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 wept the whole report by herself." The action is seen as finished and anchored to a specific past time.
The past participle "wept" always works together with an auxiliary verb. It appears in: (1) the present perfect with have/has — "I have wept this several times before"; (2) the past perfect with had — "By the time we called, they had already wept"; (3) passive voice — "The decision was wept by the board." Never use "wept" as a standalone past-tense verb without an auxiliary.
Memory tip: because "wept" and "wept" 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 "weep" belongs to can make the form easier to remember long-term.
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