1.2 Regular and Irregular verbs

1. 1.2 Regular and Irregular verbs

2. There are thousands of regular verbs in English. • A regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows a typical pattern, or one of the typical patterns, of the language to which it belongs. Regular verbs

3. Examples:

4. Exercise: • Put the correct forms of the verbs into the gaps. Use Simple Past in the statements. • 1) Jane _______ a film. (to watch) • 2) He __________ a box. (to carry) • 3) They________ their father. (to help) • 4) John and Amy_______ things. (to swap) • 5) I________ to Andrew. (to talk) • 6) Susan_______ with Peter. (to dance) • 7) The boys________ basketball. (to try) • 8) We________ a trip. (to plan) • 9) She________ her hair. (to wash) • 10) The car_______ at the traffic lights. (to stop)

5. Answers: • 1) Jane watched a film. • 2) He carried a box. • 3) They helped their father. • 4) John and Amy swapped things. • 5) I talked to Andrew. • 6) Susan danced with Peter. • 7) The boys tried basketball. • 8) We planned a trip. • 9) She washed her hair. • 10) The car stopped at the traffic lights.

6. Irregular verbs

7. An irregular verb is one that does not take the -ed ending for the Past Simple and Past Participle forms. Some irregular verbs do not change; put putput, while others change completely; buy bought bought, etc. • Examples: • Awake, awoke, awoken. Arise, arose, eating, eaten, fall, fell, falling, fallen.

8. Exercise: Fill in the correct forms of the irregular verbs.

9. Answers: