CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO GREW
PRESENT
Present
I grow
you grow
he/she/it grows
we grow
you grow
they grow
Present continuous
I am growing
you are growing
he/she/it is growing
we are growing
you are growing
they are growing
Present perfect
I have grown
you have grown
he/she/it has grown
we have grown
you have grown
they have grown
Present perfect continuous
I have been growing
you have been growing
he/she/it has been growing
we have been growing
you have been growing
they have been growing
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 grew
you grew
he/she/it grew
we grew
you grew
they grew
Past continuous
I was growing
you were growing
he/she/it was growing
we were growing
you were growing
they were growing
Past perfect
I had grown
you had grown
he/she/it had grown
we had grown
you had grown
they had grown
Past perfect continuous
I had been growing
you had been growing
he/she/it had been growing
we had been growing
you had been growing
they had been growing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will grow
you will grow
he/she/it will grow
we will grow
you will grow
they will grow
Future continuous
I will be growing
you will be growing
he/she/it will be growing
we will be growing
you will be growing
they will be growing
Future perfect
I will have grown
you will have grown
he/she/it will have grown
we will have grown
you will have grown
they will have grown
Future perfect continuous
I will have been growing
you will have been growing
he/she/it will have been growing
we will have been growing
you will have been growing
they will have been growing
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would grew
you would grew
he/she/it would grew
we would grew
you would grew
they would grew
Conditional continuous
I would be growing
you would be growing
he/she/it would be growing
we would be growing
you would be growing
they would be growing
Conditional perfect
I would have grew
you would have grew
he/she/it would have grew
we would have grew
you would have grew
they would have grew
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been growing
you would have been growing
he/she/it would have been growing
we would have been growing
you would have been growing
they would have been growing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you grow
we let´s grow
you grow
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
growing
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.
TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GREW»
The term «grew» is very widely used and occupies the
7.434 position in our list of most widely used terms in the
English dictionary.
FREQUENCY
Very widely used
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10 QUOTES WITH «GREW»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
grew.
Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
I grew up in the theater. I began my career at 3. That was the first time I stepped onto a provisional stage.
I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.
I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREW»
Discover the use of
grew in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
grew and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Rose that
Grew from Concrete
A collection of verse by the late hip-hop star Tupac Shakur includes more than one hundred poems confronting such wide-ranging topics as poverty, motherhood, Van Gogh, and Mandela.
2
The Rainforest
Grew All Around
Children will delight in discovering the many plants and animals who call the rain forest home in a clever adaptation of the song "The Green Grass Grows All Around."
3
The Year Money
Grew on Trees
With spot illustrations for mechanical-loving readers—the gears of a tractor, a plow with disks—and with mathematical calculations of the great mount of money to be earned, this novel has the sort of can-do spirt and sense of earned ...
4
Mary
Grew, Abolitionist and Feminist, 1813-1896
This is the first full-length biography of Mary Grew (1813-96), an American abolitionist and feminist, who worked steadily in the antislavery crusade from 1834 to 1865, in the Negro suffrage campaign from 1865 to 1870, and in the woman's ...
5
How the West
Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the ...
How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and material well-being when other societies remained trapped in an endless cycle of birth, hunger, hardship, and death ...
Nathan Rosenberg, Nathan Rosenberg, L. E., Jr. Birdzell, L. E., Jr. Birdzell, 2008
6
The Five Little Peppers and how They
Grew
A fatherless family in the 19th century, happy in spite of its impoverishment, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.
7
When Turtle
Grew Feathers: A Folktale from the Choctaw Nation
A Native American version of the big race between the turtle and the hare shows that it was not being slow and steady that won turtle the big race.
Chronicles one man's experiences of the Sudanese civil war in the late 1980s, from the terror and violence of his homeland, to his tortuous escape, to the culture shock he encountered while adjusting to a new life in the United States.
9
Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They
Grew
Where did it come from, and why are so many of us buying it? Business writer Samuel Fromartz set out to get the story behind this surprising success after he noticed that his own food choices were changing with the times. In Organic, Inc.
10
Up We
Grew: Stories of Australian Childhoods
And are Australian children generally less resilient than they used to be? In Up We Grew, award-winning journalist Pamela Bone explores the Australian childhood through the prism of her own experience as a daughter, a sister and a mother.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREW»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
grew is used in the context of the following news items.
The Actor Who Played Alfalfa Grew Up To Be A Lumbersexual
The Actor Who Played Alfalfa Grew Up To Be A Lumbersexual. You can chop my wood any day, Bug. Katie Corvino. BuzzFeed Staff ... «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
This Guy Grew His Beard Out From Zero To Hagrid In This Epic 365 …
This Guy Grew His Beard Out From Zero To Hagrid In This Epic 365 Day Time Lapse. From baby face to badass beardmaster in just one year! «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
Singapore economy grew slower-than-expected 1.7% year-on-year …
The growth during the April to June period was lower than the 2.8 per cent expansion seen in the first quarter. POSTED: 14 Jul 2015 08:00; UPDATED: 14 Jul ... «Channel News Asia, Jul 15»
Jacksonville nonprofit founder honored for 'little idea that just grew'
In January 2014, Mari Terbrueggen (right) and Joan Turner of the Senior Life Foundation flank Bertha VanDyke, who received a new stove with ... «Florida Times-Union, Jul 15»
New director of Piedmont Triad human relations group grew up in …
GREENSBORO — While running for the statewide presidency of Future Business Leaders of America in high school, Ivan Canada turned the ... «Winston-Salem Journal, Jul 15»
Driver grew cannabis to tackle 'headaches'
A MAN caught growing nearly €6,500 worth of cannabis plants claimed it was to relieve his severe headaches. Nicola Donnelly – 14 July 2015 ... «Herald, Jul 15»
Aldi's sales grew to $5BN in 3 years as shoppers abandon …
Discount supermarket Aldi's profits are skyrocketing in Australia, as it is revealed sales soared past $5 billion in 2013. The German giant ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Brookhaven budget surplus grew to $11.6 million last year, auditor …
The Town of Brookhaven's budget surplus grew last year to $11.6 million, according to a report prepared for town officials by an independent ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
Two state firefighters of the year grew up next-door to each other
Maryland firefighter of the year award recipients Oley Griffith left and Darryl "Breeze" Benner; Griffith was selected state's best for 2014, and ... «Herald-Mail Media, Jul 15»
Abu Dhabi residential market grew 6% in Q2 2015
Following a slow start to the year, apartment rental rates for prime buildings are on the rise in Abu Dhabi, according to a report by property ... «Construction Week Online, Jul 15»
