Help with tense

[SkyFox]

Hey I'm having some trouble in regards to a few sentence with the word examine.

"Every single piece of reflection made me examine myself deeper by taking me back to my past"
"I thought about it before but never really ‘examine’ it"

In these two sentences, should examine be examined or examine? In the first sentence, the word made brings you back to the past right, so I'm guessing it should be examined?

[Joe]

Every single piece of reflection made me examine myself deeper by taking me back to my past
I thought about it before but never really ‘examined’ it

1 is correct
2 examined

Except that strictly speaking "examine myself deeper" should be "examine myself more deeply". You need an adverb (deeply) to modify the verb (examine), not an adjective (deep). So...
- Every single piece of reflection made me examine myself more deeply by taking me back to my past.
- I thought about it before but never really examined it.

[SkyFox]

Thanks Joe. What is the reason that first sentence is ok without the -ED while the second sentence requires it? Both are past tense.

[Joe]

Thanks Joe. What is the reason that first sentence is ok without the -ED while the second sentence requires it? Both are past tense.

In the first sentence the tense is carried by the verb make (made).

make someone do something

I will make you regret this
She made him get angry
We have made them forget it
He was making her do it
etc

[SkyFox]

So in an example like this " I saw the duck walk to the shore" is correct as opposed to " I saw the duck walked to the shore" because the verb saw carries the tense?

Much appreciated Joe

[Joe]

So in an example like this " I saw the duck walk to the shore" is correct as opposed to " I saw the duck walked to the shore" because the verb saw carries the tense?

Much appreciated Joe

Yes, exactly

[OccamsRazor]

"to make" is a causal verb. Causal verbs take bare infinitives.

He made me (to) help him.
He should (to) go home.
She let him (to) go through without paying.

In these cases, no 'ed' is possible because it is the infinitive form of the verb, which cannot be conjugated into tenses.

[SkyFox]

Much appreciated razor, didn't seen your post until today