This page provides example sentences of the verb "Put" in all tenses including active and passive forms, as well as conditional and modal forms.
Base Form put / Past Simple put / Past Participle put / Gerund putting
Present Simple
He puts on his clothes before he has breakfast.
Present Simple Passive
The paper is put onto the porch by the paperboy.
Present Continuous
We are putting on a show this evening.
Present Continuous Passive
A show is being put on by the students this evening.
Present Perfect
Have you put on weight?
Present Perfect Passive
Has the exhibit been put up yet?
Present Perfect Continuous
We have been putting together the project all morning long.
Past Simple
They put us up last weekend.
Past Simple Passive
We were put up last weekend by the Smiths.
Past Continuous
We were putting on some music when he walked into the room.
Past Continuous Passive
Some music was being put on when he walked into the room.
Past Perfect
She had put on some weight before moving to Paris.
Past Perfect Passive
Jack had been put up by his friends before he moved in with me.
Past Perfect Continuous
We had been putting together the report for two hours when he finally arrived.
Future (will)
She will put Jack up for the weekend.
Future (will) passive
Jack will be put up by Jane for the weekend.
Future (going to)
I am going to put on some weight this summer.
Future (going to) passive
Some money is going to be put aside for the show.
Future Continuous
We will be putting the final touches on the project this time tomorrow.
Future Perfect
By the time you arrive I will have put everything together.
Future Possibility
She might put you up for the night.
Real Conditional
If she puts on some weight, she will go on a diet.
Unreal Conditional
If she put on some weight, she would go on a diet.
If she had put on some weight, she would have gone on a diet.
Present Modal
She should put that book back.
Past Modal
She must have put on some weight.
