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Past tense of “quit”
🏳️ To stop doing something; to leave a job.
Number 100 of 175 by frequency — common in reading and television, less so in your own speech, and all three forms are the same word. Recognising it is the priority.
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One word doing three jobs
Nothing changes. quit is the base form, the past simple and the past participle, which sounds like a gift until you notice the catch: the word itself no longer tells you what time you are talking about. Only the rest of the sentence does.
I quit it every day · I quit it yesterday · I have quit it before — identical verb, three different times. Learners often reach for quited to make the past feel like a past. It is not a word.
Most verbs in this group already end in -t or -d, which is roughly where the -ed ending would have landed anyway. English simply stopped bothering.
- Past simple: He quit his job last month.
- Past participle: She has quit smoking at last.
The same pattern — one form fits all — runs through 22 verbs:
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