grow
Base form
grow
/ɡrəʊ/
Past simple
grew
/ɡruː/
Past participle
grown
/ɡrəʊn/
MeaningA1
to become bigger, or to make plants live
to grow a beard
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1You can grow herbs on a sunny windowsill.
- Question · Form 1Did your dad grow these tomatoes himself?
- Past simple · Form 2My sister grew up in a small village near York.
- Past simple · Form 2The baby grew five centimetres last month.
- Present perfect · Form 3Ben has grown a beard since we last saw him.
- Passive · Form 3All the vegetables in this soup were grown on our farm.
Watch out
Grew is the past: I grew up in Leeds, not I growed up. An adult is a grown-up.
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