Do you say eat or ate?

Do you say eat or ate?

In standard English, the past participle form of eat is always eaten. Ate is the simple past form.

What did I just eat or ate?

Saying ‘I just ate’ to mean that you had a meal a very short time ago is extremely common in the US. The present perfect will also sometimes be used in such a sentence, but much less often. Another commonly used sentence is this: Did you eat yet?

Have ate or had ate?

While the verb ‘ate’ is the past simple of eat, “Mark ate…” is past tense – for example, “he ate the thing yesterday” – you are also describing the event in the past, after it has happened. Mark had eaten all the chocolate when I got home.

Is had ate correct?

You want to use the past perfect tense (had eaten) when a past action occurs before (or leads up to) another past action. Therefore, #1 is correct. It means you ate chocolate in the past, but you ate it before you ate dinner (also in the past).

How do you use eaten and ate?

‘Ate’ is Simple Past tense. eg I ate dinner yesterday. ‘Eaten’ is the past participle.

Did he Eat Already or already?

“Did he eat already?” You cannot say * “Did he ate already?” because you have past tense twice (“did” and “ate”) which violates syntactic logic—tense markers appear once and govern the whole clause. You can rephrase and ask “He ate already?” of course.

What is the difference between I ate today and I ate?

“I ate today” and “I have eaten today” are equivalent in meaning. As an aside, you may use ate when asking questions, but only when it is not preceded by the verb “to do” (example: “You ate last night?”).

What is the verb for eat?

or “Have you eaten?” You can use “Ate” as a verb to simplify other sentences, for example: “I ate today” rather than “I have eaten today”. Ate is the preterite conjugation of eat and is used when conjugating without the verbs “do” or “have” (therefore, you do not use “ate” when asking a question, only when stating a fact).

How do you use the word ate in a sentence?

You can use “Ate” as a verb to simplify other sentences, for example: “I ate today” rather than “I have eaten today”. Ate is the preterite conjugation of eat and is used when conjugating without the verbs “do” or “have” (therefore, you do not use “ate” when asking a question, only when stating a fact).