Why beat and not beaten?” BizWritingTip response: Beat is more commonly used in conversational English. However, a grammatical purist would say the phrase “can’t be …” must be followed by the past participle beaten. Therefore, the supermarket should say its prices “can’t be beaten.”

What is past tense for beat?

The past tense of ‘beat’ is ‘beat.

How do you use beaten in a sentence?

Beaten sentence example
Someone had beaten them home. His little army had been beaten and scattered. Her unwillingness to be beaten has developed her courage. Having been beaten in a trial of soothsaying, Calchas died of chagrin or committed suicide.

Bit forms the simple past tense of the verb bite. Both bit and bitten can form the past participle, although bitten is standard and much more common in contemporary English. Bit still appears as a participle in certain set phrases, like bit his tongue or bit her lip.