shine
Base form
shine
/ʃaɪn/
Past simple
shoneshone / shined
/ʃɒn//ʃəʊn/ /ʃaɪnd/
Past participle
shoneshone / shined
/ʃɒn//ʃəʊn/ /ʃaɪnd/
MeaningB1
to give out bright light
to make hay while the sun shines
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1The sun should shine all weekend, according to the forecast.
- Imperative · Form 1Shine the torch over here so I can see the lock.
- Past simple · Form 2Yesterday the sun shone all day, so we had lunch outside.
- Past simple · Form 2At the concert last night Priya really shone in her solo.
- Present perfect · Form 3The sun hasn’t shone once since we arrived in Wales.
- Past perfect · Form 3The moon had shone brightly all night, so we didn’t need the torch.
Watch out
The sun shone /ʃɒn/: it shone all day. Shoned and shinen are wrong. Shined is for polishing (he shined his shoes) and, in American English, for light too.
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