It’s spread in the present, spread in the past, and spread in the past participle, which is used in the present perfect.

Has, and then the past participle is spread.

Maybe you’re watching the news about a disease and the newscaster says, It’s put in the present, put in the past, and put in the present perfect. The past participle of these verbs is really easy it’s just the same as it is in the present and the past. To form the present perfect, we use have or has plus the past participle. That’s also the case in the present perfect. Those are three examples in the simple past. There are a few more but these are the most common ones. There are only a few verbs like this in English, and some of the more common ones are put, let, set, hit, cost, hurt, shut, quit, split, and spread. In the past, talking about the t-shirt you bought yesterday, you would say, “It cost $10.” If you’re shopping right now and you’re looking at a t-shirt in front of you in the present, then you would say, “It costs $10” in the present.

Now this verb does change in the present when the subject is he, she, or it. The verb cost is cost in the present, cost in the past, and cost in the past participle, which is what we use with the present perfect. I’ve seen a lot of students make the mistake of writing a sentence like this: Today I’m going to teach you all about some special irregular verbs in English that don’t change from present to past and past participle. Hello students, it’s Shayna, your teacher from. Advanced English Grammar Course Transcript:

Present tense verbs irregular english