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Common verbs used in articles

To accomplish, accomplished (past); accomplished (participle)


To achieve, achieved (past), achieved (participle)
To aim, aimed (past), aimed (participle)
To allow, allowed (past), allowed (participle)
To argue, argued (past), argued (participle)
To assert, asserted (past), asserted (participle)
To assess, assessed (past), assessed (participle)
To assume, assumed (past), assumed (participle)
To appraise, appraised (past), appraised (participle)
To attempt, attempted (past), attempted (participle)
To be, was/were (past), been (participle)
To base, based (past), based (participle)
To become, became (past), become (participle)
To build, built (past), built (participle)
To carry out, carried out (past), carried out (participle)
To choose, chose (past), chosen (participle)
To claim, claimed (past), claimed (participle)
To conduct, conducted (past), conducted (participle)
To compromise, compromised (past), compromised (participle)
To concern, concerned (past), concerned (participle)
To deal, dealt (past), dealt (participle)
To describe, described (past), described (participle)
To develop, developed (past), developed (participle)

To encompass, encompassed (past), encompassed (participle)


To emphasize, emphasized (past), emphasized (participle)
To enable, enabled (past), enabled (participle)
To encourage, encouraged (past), encouraged (participle)
To engage, engaged (past), engaged (participle)
To enhance, enhanced (past), enhanced (participle)
To ensure, ensured (past), ensured (participle)
To establish, established (past), established (participle)
To evaluate, evaluated (past), evaluated (participle)
To fail, failed (past), fail (participle)
To find, found (past), found (participle)
To figure out, figured out (past), figured out (participle)
To forecast, forecasted (past), forecasted (participle)
To follow, followed (past), followed (participle)
To fulfill, fulfilled (past), fulfilled (participle)
To gain, gained (past), gained (participle)
To gather, gathered (past), gathered (participle)
To give, gave (past), given (participle)
To guarantee, guaranteed (past), guaranteed (participle)
To handle, handled (past), handled (participle)
To happen, happened (past), happened (participle)
To hold, held (past), held (participle)
To involve, involved (past), involved (participle)
To improve, improved (past), improved (participle)
To include, included (past), included (participle)

To increase, increased (past), increased (participle)


To introduce, introduced (past), introduced (participle)
To know, knew (past), known (participle)
To lack, lacked (past), lacked (participle)
To launch, launched (past), launched (participle)
To lead, led (past), led (participle)
To lose, lost (past), lost (participle)
To make, made (past), made (participle)
To maintain, maintained (past), maintained (participle)
To measure, measured (past), measured (participle)
To mention, mentioned (past), mentioned (participle)
To notice, noticed (past), noticed (participle)
To overcome, overcame (past), overcome (participle)
To pay (attention), paid (attention), paid (attention)
To play (a role), played (a role) (past), played (a role) (participle)
To pose, posed (past), posed (participle)
To present, presented (past), presented (participle)
To prevent, prevented (past), prevented (participle)
To propose, proposed (past), proposed (participle)
To provide, provided (past), provided (participle)
To raise, raised (past), raised (participle)
To range, ranged (past), ranged (participle)
To reach, reached (past), reached (participle)
To realize, realized (past), realize (participle)

To rely, relied (past), relied (participle)


To remain, remained (past), remained (participle)
To remark, remarked (past), remarked (participle)
To resume, resumed (past), resumed (participle)
To rise, rose (past), risen (participle)
To see, saw (past), seen (participle)
To seem, seemed (past), seemed (participle)
To seek, sought (past), sought (participle)
To set (up), set (up) (past), set (up) (participle)
To settle, settled (past), settled (participle)
To shape, shaped (past), shaped (participle)
To show, showed (past), showed (participle)
To solve, solved (past), solved (participle)
To state, stated (past), stated (participle)
To support, supported (past), supported (participle)
To take, took (past), taken (participle)
To take place, took place (past), taken place (participle)
To try, tried (past) tried (participle)
To undertake, undertook (past), undertaken (participle)
To undergo, underwent (past), undergone (participle)
To understand, understood (past), understood (participle)
To vary, varied (past), varied (participle)
To witness, witnessed (past), witnessed (participle)

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