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.
Base Present P Past Past Part

talk [is] talking talked [have] talked draw [is] drawing drew [have] drawn

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
clean [is] cleaning hope [is] hoping slip [is] slipping

Past

Past Part

cleaned [have] cleaned hoped [have] hoped 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
sing [is] singing

Past
sang

Past Part
[have] sung

4. Irregular Verbs

2. by changing consonants
Base Present P
make [is] making

Past
made

Past Part
[have] made

3. by changing vowels and consonants

Base Present P
do [is] doing

Past
did

Past Part
[have] done

4. Irregular Verbs

4. by making no changes
Base Present P
hurt [is] hurting

Past
hurt

Past Part
[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

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5. Common Irregular Verbs

Base Form

Present Participle

Past Tense

Past Participle

1 2 3 4

begin bite blow break bring build

[is] beginning [is] biting [is] blowing [is] breaking

5 6
7 8 9

[is] bringing [is] building

[is] bursting [is] buying

burst
buy

catch

[is] catching

bit blew [have] blown broke [have] broken brought [have] brought built [have] built burst [have] burst bought [have] bought caught [have] caught
or

began bit

[have] begun [have] bitten

5. Common Irregular Verbs

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

choose come cost cut do draw drink

[is] choosing [is] coming [is] costing [is] cutting [is] doing [is] drawing [is] drinking

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

drive eat fall feel fight find fly

[is] driving [is] eating [is] falling [is] feeling [is] fighting [is] finding [is] flying

chose came cost cut did drew drank drove ate fell felt fought found flew

chosen [have] come [have] cost [have] cut [have] done [have] drawn [have] drunk [have] driven [have] eaten [have] fallen [have] felt [have] fought [have] found [have] flown
[have]

5. Common Irregular Verbs

24 forgive 25 freeze 26 get

[is] forgiving [is] freezing [is] getting [is] giving [is] going [is] growing

27 give 28 go 29 grow

30 have 31 hear 32 hide

33 hit

[is] having [is] hearing [is] hiding

[is] hitting

forgave froze got gave went grew had heard hid hit held knew

[have]forgiven

34 hold 35 know

[is] holding [is] knowing

frozen [have] got or gotten [have] given [have] gone [have] grown [have] had [have] heard [have] hid or hidden [have] hit [have] held [have] know
[have]

5. Common Irregular Verbs

36 lead

[is] leading

37 leave
38 lend 39 let 40 light

[is] leaving
[is] lending [is] letting [is] lighting

41 42 43 44 45 46 47

lose make meet pay put read ride

[is] losing [is] making [is] meeting [is] paying [is] putting [is] reading [is] riding

led left lent let lighted or lit lost made met paid put read rode

[have]

[have]
[have] [have] [have]

[have] [have] [have] [have] [have] [have] [have]

led left lent let lighted or lit lost made met paid put read ridden

5. Common Irregular Verbs

48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55

ring run say see seek sell send shrink

[is] ringing [is] running [is] saying [is] seeing [is] seeking [is] selling [is] sending [is] shrinking
[is] singing [is] sinking [is] speaking

56 sing 57 sink 58 speak

59 spend

[is] spending

rang ran said saw sought sold sent shrank or shrunk sang sank or sunk spoke spent

rung run said seen sought sold sent [have] shrunk [have] sung [have] sunk [have] spoken [have] spent
[have] [have] [have] [have] [have] [have] [have]

5. Common Irregular Verbs

60 stand 61 steal 62 swim 63 swing 64 take 65 teach 66 tear 67 tell 68 think

[is] standing [is] stealing [is] swimming [is] swinging [is] taking [is] teaching [is] tearing [is] telling [is] thinking

69 throw

[is] throwing

stood stole swam swung took taught tore told thought threw

stood stolen swum [have] swung [have] taken [have] taught [have] torn [have] told [have] thought [have] thrown
[have] [have] [have]

5. Common Irregular Verbs

70 wear
71 win 72 write

[is] wearing
[is] winning [is] writing

wore won wrote

[have]
[have] [have]

worn won written