Master confusing words with ease
Began vs. Begun
Began
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Begun
/bɪˈɡʌn/Examples:
The conference has begun today.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Began is the simple past tense of begin, so it is used to talk about an action that was started and completed in the past.
- Begun is the past participle of begin, which is used with auxiliary verbs (like has, have, or had) in perfect tenses.
- You can remember began as it stands alone in a sentence as the main verb, indicating the start of something in the past.
- Begun needs a helper word because it's used in perfect tenses.
- Think begun goes with has, have, or had to make a perfect tense.
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