Past simple and past participle
shine
Shine is an irregular verb: its past simple is shone and its past participle is shone.
- Base form
- shine
- Past simple
- shone
- Past participle
- shone
- Definition
- (Of the sun or another source of light) give out a bright light.
- Example
- “The sun shone through the window.”
- CEFR level
- B1On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The past simple and the past participle are the same, like bring, brought, brought.