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Irregular verb#151 most commonA — B — B

dive

Base form
dive
/daɪv/
Past simple
diveddived / dove
/daɪvd//daɪvd/ /dəʊv/
Past participle
dived
/daɪvd/
MeaningB2
to jump into water with your head and arms first
to go scuba diveing

In use

  • Imperative · Form 1Dive in — the water’s lovely!
  • Question · Form 1Can you dive from the top board?
  • Past simple · Form 2Yesterday Tom dived off the rocks into the sea.Yesterday Tom dove off the rocks into the sea.
  • Past simple · Form 2Last week the goalkeeper dived to his left and saved the penalty.Last week the goalkeeper dove to his left and saved the penalty.
  • Present perfect · Form 3Have you ever dived with sharks?
  • Past perfect · Form 3The birds had dived into the water for fish.

Watch out

divendoved

Dived is right everywhere; American English also uses dove in the past, like drove. Diven and doved are wrong.

Same pattern

A — B — BForms two and three are the same

prove—proved—provedproved / provenlearn—learned / learntlearned—learned / learntlearneddream—dreamt / dreamed—dreamt / dreamed
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