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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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beat or beated or beats

Hi there, Do I put beat/beats/beated in the following sentence? Thank you

He almost beat me. Is it past tense or present tense?
  

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Hi, Here is my take: past simple: He almost beat me. ] beats me. (I may be wrong, but I don't think in this sentence " almost " works with the present simple).

— Tanit

  • Hi, Here is my take: past simple: He almost beat me.
  • ] beats me.
  • (I may be wrong, but I don't think in this sentence " almost " works with the present simple).
  • present perfect: He has almost [beat/beaten] me.
  • (I am writing this one just to use the past participle.
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Hi,

Here is my take:
  1. past simple: He almost beat me.
  2. present simple: He [always/usually/often/...] beats me. (I may be wrong, but I don't think in this sentence "almost" works with the present simple).
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AnonymousHi there, Do I put beat/beats/beated in the following sentence? Thank you

He almost beat me. Is it past tense or present tense?

In the case of the 3rd-person singular, there is no cause for ambiguity: beat ~ beats. In other cases, such as 3rd-person plural, there could be some ambiguity: they almost beat us yesterday,
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Beat, beaten or beated are all a word except beated is nonstandard
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