Regular And Irregular Verbs

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Verbs

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•You have learned that, for most verbs, you form the past tense by adding –ed to the verb.

•Verbs that follow this rule are called regular verbs.

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•Examples of regular verbs–plant—planted–dare—dared–cry—cried

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•For some verbs, you do not form the past tense by adding –ed.

•Irregular verbs have special forms to show the past.

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Irregular VerbsVerb Past

TensePast with Helping

Verbbring

come

go

make

run

say

take

think

write

brought

came

went

made

ran

said

took

thought

wrote

(has, have, had) brought

(has, have, had) come

(has, have, had) gone

(has, have, had) made

(has, have, had) run

(has, have, had) said

(has, have, had) taken

(has, have, had) thought

(has, have, had) written

•Sadly, there are no rules to help you form the past of irregular verbs.

•However, certain patterns will help you remember the past forms of some irregular verbs.

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Irregular VerbsVerb Past

TensePast with Helping

VerbRing

Sing

Swim

Begin

rang

sang

swam

began

(has, have, had) rung

(has, have, had) sung

(has, have, had) swum

(has, have, had) begun

Tear

Wear

tore

wore

(has, have, had) torn

(has, have, had) worn

Break

Speak

Steal

Choose

Freeze

broke

spoke

stole

chose

froze

(has, have, had) broken

(has, have, had) spoken

(has, have, had) stolen

(has, have, had) chosen

(has, have, had) frozen

Blow

Grow

Know

fly

blew

grew

knew

flew

(has, have, had) blown

(has, have, had) grown

(has, have, had) known

(has, have, had) flown