Past simple and past participle
shear
Shear is an irregular verb: its past simple is sheared and its past participle is shorn.
- Base form
- shear
- Past simple
- sheared
- Past participle
- shorn
- Definition
- Cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal).
- Example
- “Paul has never sheared a sheep before.”
- CEFR level
- C2On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The three forms are different, like begin, began, begun.