write
Base form
write
/raɪt/
Past simple
wrote
/rəʊt/
Past participle
written
/ˈrɪtn/
MeaningA1
to put words on paper or a screen
to write a novel
In use
- Imperative · Form 1Write your name at the top of every page.
- Question · Form 1Did you write to your grandmother to thank her for the present?
- Past simple · Form 2Leo wrote a long email to his landlord about the broken heating last night.
- Past simple · Form 2Last year Priya wrote her first song for her sister’s wedding.
- Passive · Form 3The report was written by three students in only two days.
- Present perfect · Form 3I’ve written the address on the back of the envelope.
Watch out
Written has a double t and a short /ɪ/, so writen is wrong; I have wrote → I have written.
Same pattern
A — B — CAll three forms differ
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