{"id":1897,"date":"2017-02-20T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2017-02-20T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T16:27:11","slug":"the-past-and-past-participle-forms-of-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-past-and-past-participle-forms-of-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"The past and past participle forms of bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bid as a verb<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5;\">To bid is to command, order, request, or direct.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Prime Minister <strong>bids<\/strong> all citizens to pay tax.<\/li>\n<li>I <strong>bid<\/strong> you join our party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also bid for something. In this case, you are saying that you will offer a certain amount of money for something that is for sale.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The antique dealer <strong>bid<\/strong> $200 for the rug.<\/li>\n<li>He said that he would <strong>bid<\/strong> for the contract.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When bid is used with this meaning, its past and past participle forms are also bid.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The collector<strong> bid<\/strong> $3000 for the painting. (Simple past)<\/li>\n<li>I have <strong>bid<\/strong> $500 for that vase. (Present perfect)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bid can also mean <strong>tell, wish, say or greet<\/strong>. Note that when bid is used with this meaning, its past tense is <strong>bade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He bade us farewell.<\/li>\n<li>He bade his mother good-bye.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bid as a noun<\/h2>\n<p>When bid is used as a noun, it is the amount of money you are offering for something.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was the highest bid for the painting?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bid can also mean \u2018attempt\u2019 or \u2018effort\u2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His bid for the presidency failed. (= His attempt to become the president failed)<\/li>\n<li>In a bid to attract more buyers, the company reduced the prices of its products. (= In an attempt to attract more buyers, \u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bid as a verb To bid is to command, order, request, or direct. The Prime Minister bids all citizens to pay tax. I bid you join our party. You can also bid for something.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[400],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-bid-and-bade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}