CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ATE
PRESENT
Present
I eat
you eat
he/she/it eats
we eat
you eat
they eat
Present continuous
I am eating
you are eating
he/she/it is eating
we are eating
you are eating
they are eating
Present perfect
I have eaten
you have eaten
he/she/it has eaten
we have eaten
you have eaten
they have eaten
Present perfect continuous
I have been eating
you have been eating
he/she/it has been eating
we have been eating
you have been eating
they have been eating
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I ate
you ate
he/she/it ate
we ate
you ate
they ate
Past continuous
I was eating
you were eating
he/she/it was eating
we were eating
you were eating
they were eating
Past perfect
I had eaten
you had eaten
he/she/it had eaten
we had eaten
you had eaten
they had eaten
Past perfect continuous
I had been eating
you had been eating
he/she/it had been eating
we had been eating
you had been eating
they had been eating
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will eat
you will eat
he/she/it will eat
we will eat
you will eat
they will eat
Future continuous
I will be eating
you will be eating
he/she/it will be eating
we will be eating
you will be eating
they will be eating
Future perfect
I will have eaten
you will have eaten
he/she/it will have eaten
we will have eaten
you will have eaten
they will have eaten
Future perfect continuous
I will have been eating
you will have been eating
he/she/it will have been eating
we will have been eating
you will have been eating
they will have been eating
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would ate
you would ate
he/she/it would ate
we would ate
you would ate
they would ate
Conditional continuous
I would be eating
you would be eating
he/she/it would be eating
we would be eating
you would be eating
they would be eating
Conditional perfect
I would have ate
you would have ate
he/she/it would have ate
we would have ate
you would have ate
they would have ate
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been eating
you would have been eating
he/she/it would have been eating
we would have been eating
you would have been eating
they would have been eating
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you eat
we let´s eat
you eat
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
eating
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «ATE»
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ate.
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
I was such a wallflower in high school. I did a lot of extracurricular theatre shows, but at school, I spent a lot of time by myself. I ate lunch by myself, and I was always okay with it. But I was definitely made fun of, and I always felt like an outsider.
But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!
Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.
Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. In many ways, this was beneficial. People ate fresh, seasonal foods that were naturally flavorful and nutritious, and farmers and communities prospered.
I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATE»
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ate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Ask him a question and he's bound to give you an honest answer. Which is why, when his teacher asks what happened to last night's math assignment, Rod has to give the only answer he can: "Aliens ate my homework, Miss Maloney!
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It Must've Been Something I
Ate: The Return of the Man Who ...
The result is one of those rare books that are simultaneously mouth-watering and side-splitting. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Jeffrey Steingarten,
2008
3
What the Slaves
Ate: Recollections of African American Foods ...
The powerful, long-neglected testimony of former slaves places African American slave foods and foodways at the center of the complex social dynamics of the plantation South.
Herbert C. Covey, Dwight Eisnach,
2009
4
What Jane Austen
Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox ...
A “delightful reader’s companion” (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontës, and more, this lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules and customs ...
5
The Man Who
Ate Everything
Here is the man who ate everything and lived to tell about it. And we, his readers, are hereby invited to the feast in this delightful book.
Jeffrey Steingarten,
2011
6
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He
Ate Me: Forty New ...
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.
7
Cinderella
Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines ...
She dissected the science, created an online avatar, and parsed the original fairy tales. The stakes turn out to be higher than she—or we—ever imagined: nothing less than the health, development, and futures of our girls.
8
The Valentine That
Ate My Teacher
Before you can say "Be Mine", Lizzie, Scott, Sybil, and their substitute teacher, Mr. Bernstein, are sucked into the class Valentine Box--and swept to another world!
9
Eight
Ate: A Feast of Homonym Riddles
This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings.
10
Who
Ate All the Cookie Dough?
Kanga and her friends try to discover who ate all of her cookie dough.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATE»
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ate is used in the context of the following news items.
And then they ate all the hot dogs really fast...
Showing his flair for discovering stories of key journalistic importance comedian Rob Hunter covers the 'Nathan's Famous' world hot dog eating ... «SBS, Jul 15»
Audrey Hepburn's diet revealed: You won't believe what she ate daily
Believe it or not but Hollywood diva Audrey Hepburn ate chocolate every single day. The son of Audrey Hupburn, the Breakfast At Tiffany's star, ... «India Today, Jul 15»
People campaign to save a bear that 'ripped off and ate the arm' of …
Her severed arm has not been found with local reports saying 'probably the bear ate it'. She, a young man and a child approached the bear ... «The Siberian Times, Jul 15»
Mocktale: BJP blames Manmohan Singh for Lalitgate and …
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been facing tough times recently. Firstly, it was Lalit Modi alleging several BJP ministers of ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Parents banished teen girl to tent after she ate a Pop-Tart, SC …
DALZELL, SC (WNCN) — The Sumter County Sheriff's Office arrested a husband and wife on child neglect charges Friday night after learning ... «WNCN, Jul 15»
On the Fourth, they speed ate ribs – and a mess of other food – for a …
After awhile, in a game effort to pass Menchetti, Shell dispensed with his cutlery and ate with his hands. He watered down his toast and ate it ... «Charlotte Observer, Jul 15»
Yeah, I Ate That (Special 4th of July Edition): The Hardee's Most …
Yeah, I Ate That (Special 4th of July Edition): The Hardee's Most American Thickburger. Saved. Save Article; My Saved Items · Print Email. «. «Madison.com, Jul 15»
How the Greeks Ate Their Way to Ruin
When the portly deputy prime minister of Greece was asked in 2010 how the politicians ate the money, a truncated version of his answer ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
An Artist Sculpted Everything He Ate in a Year
Over the course of a year, the artist ate 133 cucumbers, 567 slices of bread, 155 lemons, 32 gallons of Diet Coke, 490 tomatoes, and three figs. «Wired, Jul 15»
Was it a virus or something you ate? And does it matter?
However, she had eaten dinner with four other family members at a Mexican restaurant in Garland. Four family members — all of whom ate the ... «Dallas Morning News, Jul 15»