Advance English
Grammar
ENG125-00 Advanced English Grammar:
Irregular Past Participle Form
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Table of contents
01
02
03
Rationale for
Selection
Real Life
Examples
List of
Irregular Verbs
04
05
06
Regularization
References
Exercise &
Solutions
Rationale for Selection
1
Even native speakers get it wrong
2
ESL Learners can find it confusing
3
I was using it too
“Man, I should have went home”
“Man, I should have gone home”
“Oh no, I never should have drank those chemicals.”
“Oh no, I never should have drunk those chemicals.”
Mistake of using past tense in the place of past participle
List of Irregular Verbs
Base Form
Past Simple
Past Participle
arise
arose
arisen
begin
began
begun
choose
chose
chosen
do
did
done
eat
ate
eaten
forgive
forgave
forgiven
Fill in the gaps with the correct tense
1
I have _____ in an opera before.
2
Have you ever ____ on vacation alone?
3
They have ________ the subway many times.
a) sing
a) go
a) ride
b) sang
b) went
b) rode
c) sung
c) gone
c) ridden
Regularization:
A Natural Part of
Language Evolution
➔ Some of the irregular
verbs we use today could
die along with us
➔ Not unique to English; it is
a universal phenomenon
She had wed her childhood sweetheart.
She had wedded her childhood sweetheart.
→ Both are acceptable
References
Disney. (2019). Family Guy. United States. Retrieved November 14, 2023, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHwV1QpdOxg.
K;, F. V. S. (n.d.). The cognitive roots of regularization in language. Cognition.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30572180/
Katherine Unger Baillie. (2017). language evolution image. Penn Today. Retrieved November 14, 2023, from
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/luck-plays-role-how-language-evolves-penn-team-finds.
Lieberman, E., Michel, J.-B., Jackson, J., Tang, T., & Nowak, M. A. (n.d.). Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of
language. Nature News. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06137
MGMT Entertainment. (2016). Atlanta. United States. Retrieved November 14, 2023, from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHJliIxhKe0.
Thank You