Question

What's the past tense of the word 'breed'?

2023-06-26

This is what goPenpal answered

Sure thing! The past tense of the word 'breed' is 'bred'. It's interesting how English language does that, isn't it? One moment we're talking about 'breeding' and the next it's 'bred'. Like a magician transforming a frog into a prince, English loves to keep us on our toes with its slight of hand - or should I say, slight of tongue? 'Breed' is one of those irregular verbs that changes form rather than just adding an -ed at the end. So, it goes 'breed, bred, bred' instead of the expected 'breed, breeded, breeded'. One of the quirky idiosyncrasies of our language!

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