sew
Base form
sew
/səʊ/
Past simple
sewed
/səʊd/
Past participle
sewn / sewed
/səʊn/ /səʊd/
MeaningB1
to join pieces of cloth with a needle and thread
to sew on a button
In use
- Question · Form 1Can you sew a button back on my shirt?
- Imperative · Form 1Sew along the line with small, neat stitches.
- Past simple · Form 2Last weekend Grandma sewed a dress for my doll.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday I sewed a patch onto my jeans.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’ve sewn name labels into all the school uniforms.
- Past perfect · Form 3She had sewn the curtains herself.
Watch out
Sew /səʊ/ rhymes with so: sewed, then sewn (sewed is also right); sowed and sown are for seeds. Sewen and sewd are wrong.
Same pattern
A — B — BForms two and three are the same
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