---
id: 657b23f03b449aac2c517089
title: Task 73
challengeType: 22
dashedName: task-73
lang: en-US
---

<!-- (Audio) Alice: I'm mostly self-taught and I took a lot of online courses. -->

# --description--

The word `took` is what you use instead of `take` when you're talking about something that happened in the past, like yesterday or last year.

Most verbs get `-ed` added to them for the past tense, like `play` becomes `played`. But `take` is different; it changes to `took`. 

# --fillInTheBlank--

## --sentence--

`I'm mostly self-taught and I BLANK a lot of online courses.`

## --blanks--

`took`

### --feedback--

This word is the past tense form of `take`. It's used to talk about actions that happened in the past.

# --scene--

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