sell
Base form
sell
/sel/
Past simple
sold
/səʊld/
Past participle
sold
/səʊld/
MeaningA1
to give something in exchange for money
to sell something at a loss
In use
- Question · Form 1Did you sell your old car in the end?
- After a modal verb · Form 1We might sell the flat and move to the coast.
- Past simple · Form 2Last weekend Aisha sold her old sofa online for forty pounds.
- Past simple · Form 2The bakery sold out of bread by ten o’clock yesterday.
- Passive · Form 3All the concert tickets were sold within an hour of going online.
- Past perfect · Form 3Tom had sold his guitar before he realised how much he missed it.
Watch out
The noun is sale: house for sell → house for sale. The past is sold, never selled.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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