LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
Grammar Reference
Preparatore Linguistico:
Dott.ssa Barbara Meloni
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
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LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
In English, some verbs are regular and some are
irregular.
Regular verbs end in –ed. For example:
Work- worked
Travel- travelled
Live-lived
Stay- stayed ………and so on.
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
This list is to help you learn the most common irregular
verbs in English., e.g. do, did, done
do - the first word is the infinitive form of the verb
did - the second word is the past form of the verb
done - the third is the past participle of the verb
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
Group 1: No change
Cost cost cost
cut cut cut
let
let
let
put
put put
read read* read*
* Their pronunciation is /red/
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Group 2: One change
Past form and past participle are the same
Build
built built
bring brought brought
buy bought bought
catch caught caught
feel
felt
felt
find found
found
get
got
got
have had
had
hear heard
heard keep kept
kept
lend
lent
lent
lose lost
lost
make made made
meet met
met
pay
paid
paid
say said
said
sell
sold
sold
send sent
sent
sit
sat
sat
sleep slept
slept
spend spent
spent
tell
told
told
think thought
thought
understand understood understood
win
won
won
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VERBS
Group 3: One change
The Infinitive and the Past participle are
the same, the Past form is different:
Become became become
come came come
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
Group 4: All different
Be
begin
choose
drink
fall
forget
go
see
speak
swim
was/were
began
been
do
begun break
chose
drank
fell
forgot
went
did
broke
chosen
drive
drunk
eat
fallen fly
forgotten
know
ring
saw
spoke
swam
take
wake
write
gone / been
drove
ate
flew
give
knew
rang
seen
spoken
swum
took
woke
wrote
done
broken
gave
grow
known
rung
driven
eaten
flown
given
grew
taken
woken
written
grown
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR
VERBS
To be, or not to be,
that is the question
LEARNING THE IRREGULAR VERBS