English for Today by Ganiu Abisoye Bamgbose (Dr GAB)
FIND, FOUND, FOUNDED
If you find someone or something, you see them or learn where they are, and the past tense of this verb is “found”.
I can’t find my pen. ✔️
She found hers on the table. ✔️
“Found” is used as a present tense verb when an institution, company, or organisation is established by someone or by a group of people, and the past tense of “found” is “founded”:
Who found the organisation? ❌
Who founded the organisation? ✔️
We should find an organisation to cater for the oppressed. ❌
We should found an organisation to cater for the oppressed. ✔️
GAB
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