Period: From 28/09/2020 To 04/10/2020

Regular and irregular           verbs:

An English verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding –ed.

Examples are given below.

 Walk – walked – walked

 Dance – danced – danced

Paint – painted – painted

Work – worked – worked

 

Irregular verbs form their past and past participle forms in different ways. There are mainly three types of irregular verbs.

·        Verbs in which all the three forms are the same (e.g. put – put – put)

·        Verbs in which two of the three forms are the same (e.g. sit – sat – sat)

·         Verbs in which all three forms are different (e.g. drink – drank – drunk)

 

Some verbs can be both regular and irregular. Examples are:

 

• Burn – burnt – burnt (irregular)
• Burn – burned – burned (regular)
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• Dream – dreamt – dreamt (irregular)
• Dream – dreamed – dreamed (regular)
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• Lean – lent –  lent  (irregular)
• Lean – leaned – leaned (regular)
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• Learn – learnt – learnt (irregular)
• Learn – learned – learned (regular)
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• Leap – leapt – leapt (irregular)
• Leap – leaped – leaped (regular)
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• Smell – smelt – smelt (irregular)
• Smell – smelled – smelled (regular)
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• Spill – spilt – spilt  (irregular)
• Spill – spilled – spilled (regular)
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• Spoil – spoilt – spoilt (irregular)
• Spoil – spoiled – spoiled(regular)

The Most Common Irregular Verbs List:

base form	past simple	past participl
be	was/were	been
bear	bore	born
beat	beat	beaten
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bet	bet	bet
bite	bit	bitten
blow	blew	blown
broadcast	broadcast	broadcast
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
burn	burnt	burnt
buy	bought	bought
can	could
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
dream	dreamt	dreamt
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	got
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown
hang	hung	hung
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
lead	led	led
learn	learnt	learnt
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lie	lay	lain
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
ring	rang	rung
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
shoot	shot	shot
show	showed	shown
shut	shut	shut
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
stick	stuck	stuck
swim	swam	swum
understand	understood	understood
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
wake	woke	woken
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written