drive
Base form
drive
/draɪv/
Past simple
drove
/drəʊv/
Past participle
driven
/ˈdrɪvn/
MeaningA1
to control a car or other vehicle
to drive a taxi for a living
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1Can you drive me to the station tomorrow morning?
- Negative · Form 1Don’t drive so fast when the road is icy.
- Past simple · Form 2Last summer we drove all the way from London to Edinburgh.
- Past simple · Form 2Priya drove her mum to the hospital at six this morning.
- Passive · Form 3The winning car was driven by a nineteen-year-old from Cardiff.
- Past perfect · Form 3Ben had never driven on the left before he moved to the UK.
Watch out
Drove rhymes with stove; driven has a short /ɪ/, like given. Drived is wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — CAll three forms differ
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