Irregular and Regular

Verbs

Lic. Miranda

ACTIVATOR

• Circle the verbs that you think are irregular. What are your standards for selection?

hope go run wish tell

1. Principal Parts of a Verb

a. The principal parts of a verb are the base form, the present participle, the past, and the past participle.

talk

draw

[is] talking

[is] drawing

talked

drew

[have] talked

[have] drawn

Base Present P Past Past Part

1. Principal Parts of a Verb

b. “talk” is a regular verb because its past and past participle forms are created by adding an –ed at the end.

c. “draw” is an irregular verb because its past and past participle forms are created differently.

Assessment Prompt

• 1s, tell 2s: Name a verb in base form. With your partner, take turns changing the verb to present participle, past, and past participle?

• 2s, select a new verb and do the same.

2. Principal Parts of a Verb and Time

a. The principal parts of a verb are used to express time.

Present Time

-He draws excellent pictures

-Susan is drawing one now.

2. Principal Parts of a Verb and Time

a. The principle parts of a verb are used to express time.

Past Time-Last week they drew two maps.-She has often drawn cartoons.

Future Time-Perhaps she will draw one for you.-By Thursday, we will have drawn

two more.

3. Regular Verbs

a. A regular verb forms its past and past participle by adding –d or –ed to the base form.

Base Present P Past Past Part

clean [is] cleaning cleaned [have] cleaned

hope [is] hoping hoped [have] hoped

slip [is] slipping slipped [have] slipped

4. Irregular Verbs a. An irregular verb forms its past and

past participle in some way other than adding –d or –ed to the base form.

1. by changing vowels

Base Present P Past Past Part sing [is] singing sang [have] sung

4. Irregular Verbs

2. by changing consonants

Base Present P Past Past Part

make [is] making made [have] made

3. by changing vowels and consonants

Base

do

Present P Past Past Part

[is] doing did [have] done

4. Irregular Verbs

4. by making no changes

Base Present P Past Past Part

hurt [is] hurting hurt [have] hurt

Assessment Prompt

• What makes a verb irregular?

• Give one example per group member –also, taking the base through each of the principal parts.

5. Common Irregular Verbs

• We will be placing two sheets in your binder/spiral – Make sure that you fill in the blanks as we go

through the notes.

5. Common Irregular Verbs

began begunbit

Base Form

Present Participle

Past Tense

Past Participle

1 begin [is] beginning [have]

2bite

[is] biting [have]

3 blow [is] blowing [have]

4 break [is] breaking [have]

5 bring [is] bringing [have]

6 build [is] building [have]

7 burst [is] bursting [have]

8 buy [is] buying [have]

9 catch [is] catching [have]

bitten or bit

blew blownbroke brokenbrought broughtbuilt builtburst burstbought boughtcaught caught

5. Common Irregular Verbs chose10 choose [is] choosing [have]

11 come [is] coming [have]

12 cost [is] costing [have]

13 cut [is] cutting [have]

14 do [is] doing [have]

15 draw [is] drawing [have]

16 drink [is] drinking [have]

17 drive [is] driving [have]

18 eat [is] eating [have]

19 fall [is] falling [have]

20 feel [is] feeling [have]

21 fight [is] fighting [have]

22 find [is] finding [have]

23 fly [is] flying [have]

chosencame comecost costcut cutdid donedrew drawndrank drunkdrove driven

ate eatenfell fallenfelt felt

fought foughtfound foundflew flown

5. Common Irregular Verbs 24 forgive [is] forgiving [have]

25 freeze [is] freezing [have]

26get

[is] getting [have]

27 give [is] giving [have]

28 go [is] going [have]

29 grow [is] growing [have]

30 have [is] having [have]

31 hear [is] hearing [have]

32hide

[is] hiding [have]

33 hit [is] hitting [have]

34 hold [is] holding [have]

35 know [is] knowing [have]

forgiven

grew

frozengot

got or gotten

gave givenwent gone

grown

forgavefroze

had hadheard heardhid hid or

hiddenhit hit

held heldknew know

5. Common Irregular Verbs

led36 lead [is] leading [have]

37 leave [is] leaving [have]

38 lend [is] lending [have]

39 let [is] letting [have]

40light

[is] lighting [have]

41 lose [is] losing [have]

42 make [is] making [have]

43 meet [is] meeting [have]

44 pay [is] paying [have]

45 put [is] putting [have]

46 read [is] reading [have]

47 ride [is] riding [have]

ledleft leftlent lentlet let

lighted orlit

lighted orlit

lost lostmade mademet metpaid paidput put

read readrode ridden

5. Common Irregular Verbs rang48 ring [is] ringing [have]

49 run [is] running [have]

50 say [is] saying [have]

51 see [is] seeing [have]

52 seek [is] seeking [have]

53 sell [is] selling [have]

54 send [is] sending [have]

55shrink

[is] shrinking[have]

56 sing [is] singing [have]

57sink

[is] sinking[have]

58 speak [is] speaking [have]

59 spend [is] spending [have]

rungran runsaid saidsaw seen

sought soughtsold soldsent sent

shrank orshrunk

shrunk

sang sungsank or sunk sunkspoke spokenspent spent

5. Common Irregular Verbs stood60 stand [is] standing [have]

61 steal [is] stealing [have]

62 swim [is] swimming [have]

63 swing [is] swinging [have]

64 take [is] taking [have]

65 teach [is] teaching [have]

66 tear [is] tearing [have]

67 tell [is] telling [have]

68 think [is] thinking [have]

69 throw [is] throwing [have]

stoodstole stolenswam swumswung swungtook taken

taught taughttore torntold told

thought thoughtthrew thrown

5. Common Irregular Verbs

70 wear [is] wearing [have]

71 win [is] winning [have]

72write

[is] writing[have]

wore wornwon wonwrote written