The past participle of hear is “heard” (e.g., “Have you heard about her new film?,” “I hadn’t heard about that,” “The case was heard last week”).
The simple past tense of hear is also “heard” (e.g., “The court heard the case last week”)
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No, catched is not a word that you will find in most dictionaries.
The simple past tense of catch is “caught,” not “catched” (e.g., “He didn’t take his car; he caught the bus”).
The past participle of “catch” is also “caught,” not “catched” (e.g., “He says that he’s caught a cold”).
However, “catched” is used as a past tense and past participle form in some spoken dialects of English.
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It is caught, not catched.
The simple past tense of catch is “caught,” not “catched” (e.g., “She didn’t drive; she caught the bus”).
The past participle of “catch” is also “caught,” not “catched” (e.g., “She says she’s caught a cold”).
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Caught is the simple past tense of catch (e.g., “I caught the bus yesterday”) as well as the past participle of “catch.” (e.g., “Have you caught a cold?”).
Caught can mean “discovered doing something forbidden” (e.g., “We caught him spraying graffiti on the wall”) and “got on” a bus, train, or plane (e.g., “I was running late and only just caught my train”).
If you are “caught by surprise,” you feel surprised because something has happened that you did not expect (e.g., “Their engagement caught me completely by surprise; they’ve only known each other for a few months”).
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The past participle of dive is “dived” (e.g., “Have you ever dived in Florida?”).
The past tense of dive is “dove” or “dived” in American English and “dived” in British English.
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The past tense of scuba dive is “scuba dove” or “scuba dived” because the past tense of dive is “dove” or “dived.”
However, the verb “scuba dive” is not typically used in the simple past tense. You normally use the phrase “go scuba diving” (e.g., “We went scuba diving there on vacation last year”).
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You can use dived or dove as the simple past tense of dive in American English (e.g., “We dove/dived on our vacation last year”).
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The word ate is the simple past tense of eat (e.g., “He got up and ate a quick breakfast”).
The verb “eat” is an irregular verb, and you don’t form its simple past tense or past participle forms by adding “-ed” to the infinitive form.
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The past participle of eat is “eaten.” Because “eat” is an irregular verb, its past participle is not formed by adding “-ed.”
The simple past tense of eat is “ate” (e.g., “She didn’t have time for breakfast and ate a banana when she got to work”)
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It is have you eaten, not have you ate (e.g., “Are you hungry, or have you already eaten?”) because “eaten” is the past participle of the irregular verb “eat.”
“Ate” is the past tense of eat (i.e., the simple past tense form for sentences like “We ate at home before we set off”).
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