Past simple and past participle
sleep
Sleep is an irregular verb: its past simple is slept and its past participle is slept.
- Base form
- sleep
- Past simple
- slept
- Past participle
- slept
- Definition
- A condition of body and mind that typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended.
- Example
- “I was on the verge of sleep.”
- CEFR level
- A1On the CEFR scale, from A1 (beginner) to C2 (proficient).
- Pattern
- The past simple and the past participle are the same, like bring, brought, brought.