What is the past tense of ride?

The past tense of ride is rode. It is an irregular verb, meaning that it does not follow the standard rules for forming past tense verbs in English. Instead of adding -ed to the end of the verb, as you would with regular verbs, ride changes to rode in the past tense. For example:

• Present: I ride my bike to school every day.
• Past: Yesterday, I rode my bike to school.

Rode is also the past participle form of ride. This means it can be used with auxiliary verbs like "have" to show an action that was completed in the past, such as in the sentence:

• I have rode that rollercoaster before.

It's important to note that rode is the correct past tense form for the verb ride, and using the incorrect form (such as "rided") would be considered grammatically incorrect.