run
Base form
run
/rʌn/
Past simple
ran
/ræn/
Past participle
run
/rʌn/
MeaningA1
to move fast on your feet
to run out of time
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1I can’t run very fast in these new shoes.
- Question · Form 1Did you run all the way from the station?
- Past simple · Form 2Leo ran to the shop just before it closed last night.
- Past simple · Form 2Last spring Priya ran her first half marathon in under two hours.
- Present perfect · Form 3Aisha has run the café on the corner since 2018.
- Past perfect · Form 3We had run out of milk, so Ben went to the corner shop.
Watch out
Only the middle form has an a: run, ran, run. She has ran a marathon → She has run a marathon.
Same pattern
A — B — AThe third form returns to the first
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