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Irregular Verbs

Irregular Verbs. Susan Mosley. run. Ran. Irregular Verbs. An irregular verb forms its past and past participle in some way other than by adding –d or –ed to the base form. swum. Swam. Swim. Verb Forms. Regular Verbs.

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Irregular Verbs

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  1. Irregular Verbs Susan Mosley run Ran

  2. Irregular Verbs An irregular verb forms its past and past participle in some way other than by adding –d or –ed to the base form. swum Swam Swim

  3. Verb Forms

  4. Regular Verbs • Regular verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding –ed or –d to their present tense form. • More than 95% of all English verbs are regular. • Regular verbs cause few problems in speaking and writing.

  5. Regular verbs and their Principal Parts

  6. Irregular Verbs • Irregular verbs can form their past tense and past participle forms in various way. • These forms cause even native speakers innumerable problems. • The most irregular verb of all is the verb to be. • Another irregular verb that is important for its use with other verbs is the verb to have.

  7. Four Principal/Main Partsof helping verbs be and have

  8. Comparing Regular and Irregular Verb Forms

  9. Past Tense • Past tense expresses action completed at a definite time in the past. • Examples: • Regular Verb: • He delivered the letter yesterday. (deliver, delivered) • She lived to be 90 years old. (live, lived) • Irregular Verb: • I ate at the new restaurant last night. (ate, eat) • She laid her head down on the table. (lay, laid)

  10. Past Participle • All verbs in this tense must have a helping verb in front of it • Forms of be • Forms of have • Examples • Regular Verbs • These Spanish folk dancers must havepracticed for a long time • Eli may havelooked under the table for the cat. • Irregular Verbs • Those tickets shouldn’t havecost so much. • Well, nephew, you surely havegrown.

  11. Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts

  12. Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts

  13. Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts

  14. Can you finish the chart?

  15. Answers

  16. Let’s Practice!!! • I have already (spoken, spoke, spoked) to the optician about my new pair of contact lenses. • spoke • I have always (do, doed, done) my homework right after supper. • done • The apples we dried in the sun have (shrink, shrinked, shrunk). • shrunk

  17. King Arthur’s sword Excalibur had (sink, sinked, sunk) slowly to the bottom of the lake. • sunk • Michael (ran, run, runned) the 100-meter dash in excellent time. • ran • Before the softball game, my friend Gabriela (lend, lent, lended) me her glove. • lent

  18. We have never (go, goed, gone) to see the Parthenon in Nashville. • gone • Have you ever (flew, fly, flown) coast to coast using Eastern Airlines’ excursion rates? • flown • The weather forecast this morning (say, sayed, said) to expect snow flurries. • said

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