Regular and irregular verb forms

Regular and irregular verb forms

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  P R EP A R E D B Y A N T O H D E P A R T M E N T O F E N G L I S H S T X A V I E R ’ S C O L L E G E O F E D U C A T I O N ( A U T O N O M O U S ) P A L A Y A M K O T T A I T I R U N E L V E L I I N D I A T A M I L N A D U P I N – 6 2 7 0 0 2 . REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERB FORMS
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  Introduction  Verb Forms!Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the basis of how their past tense and past participles are formed.  In this Power Point, we will learn list of regular verbs and irregular verbs in English.
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  Types of VerbForms  Regular Verb Form  Irregular Verb Form
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  Regular Verb Form Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb.
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  Examples  arrange –arranged – arranged  arrive – arrived – arrived  ask – asked – asked  attack – attacked – attacked  bake – baked – baked  behave – behaved – behaved  believe – believed – believed  belong – belonged – belonged  blame – blamed – blamed  borrow – borrowed – borrowed  bother – bothered – bothered  call – called – called  cancel – canceled – canceled  roll – rolled – rolled
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  Irregular Verb Form There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms.
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  Examples  be –was/ were – been  bear – bore – born (e)  beat – beat – beaten  become – became – become  burst – burst – burst  buy – bought – bought  catch – caught – caught  choose – chose – chosen  cling – clung – clung  come – came – come  cost – cost – cost  creep – crept – crept
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