过去式是started,过去分词也是started。
start vt. 开始,启动;vi. 出发。
用法:
start doing 开始做一件新的事情(从新开始的)。
start to do 继续开始做以前暂停的工作。
1) 谈及一项长期活动或开始一种习惯时,使用doing.
How old were you when you first started playing the piano?
你几岁时开始弹钢琴?
2) begin, start用进行时时,后面动词用不定式to do
I was beginning to get angry。
我开始生起气来。
3) 在attempt, intend, begin, start 后接know, understand, realize这类动词时,常用不定式to do。
I begin to understand the truth。
我开始明白真相。
例句:
John then unlocked the front door and I started to follow him up the stairs.
接着约翰打开前门,我开始随他上楼。
It was 1956 when Susanna started the work on the garden.
苏珊娜是在1956年开始修建那个花园的。
The fire is thought to have started in an upstairs room.
这火被认为是从楼上的一间房开始的。