teach
Base form
teach
/tiːtʃ/
Past simple
taught
/tɔːt/
Past participle
taught
/tɔːt/
MeaningA1
to help someone learn something
to teach an old dog new tricks
In use
- After a modal verb · Form 1Could you teach me how to make bread?
- Question · Form 1Did your mum teach you to play the piano?
- Past simple · Form 2My grandfather taught me to swim in the sea when I was six.
- Past simple · Form 2Last year Aisha taught English in a small school in Peru.
- Present perfect · Form 3Mr Evans has taught at this school for thirty years.
- Passive · Form 3We were taught how to change a tyre in our first lesson.
Watch out
Taught, never teached. And you teach someone but learn yourself: She learnt me English → She taught me English.
Same pattern
-ought / -aughtForms two and three end in -ought or -aught
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