This document lists over 50 common English action verbs and their past tense and past participle forms. It provides the base form of each verb, as well as the regular conjugations for the present tense third person singular, past tense, past participle, and present participle/gerund forms to serve as a reference for English language learners.

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Action Verbs
Walk walks walked walked walking
Open opens opened opened opening
Close closes closed closed closing
Talk talks talked talked talking
Look looks looked looked looking
Listen listens listened listened listening
Wash washes washed washed washing
Watch watches watched watched watching
Clean cleans cleaned cleaned cleaning
Smell smells smelled smelled smelling
Smile smiles smiled smiled smiling
Laugh laughs laughed laughed laughing
Taste tastes tasted tasted tasting
Stop stops stopped stopped stopping
Cry cries cried cried crying
Try tries tried tried trying
Eat eats ate eaten eating
See sees saw seen seeing
Speak speaks spoke spoken speaking
Take takes took taken taking
Make makes made made making
Give gives gave given giving
Write writes wrote written writing
Do does did done doing
Go goes went gone going
Sing sings sang sung singing
Drink drinks drank drunk drinking
Sit sits sat sat sitting
Stand stands stood stood standing
Say says said said saying
Sleep sleeps slept slept sleeping
Keep keeps kept kept keeping
Feel feels felt felt feeling
Hear hears heard heard hearing
Cut cuts cut cut cutting
Hit hits hit hit hitting
Set sets set set setting
Put puts put put putting
Come comes
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Come comes came come coming
Run runs ran run running
Read reads read read reading
Think thinks thought thought thinking
Bring brings brought brought bringing
Buy buys bought bought buying
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