Verbs: Regular and Irregular
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Lesson 364
Verbs: Regular and Irregular
'A verb is a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence. Verbs in English have four basic forms'^~^'typefacestyle'
Base form –ing form Past Tense Past Participle
Work Working Worked Worked
Play Playing Played Played
Listen Listening Listened Listened
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A verb can express:
i) A physical action (e.g., to swim, to write, to climb).
E.g. The doctor 'wrote' the prescription.

ii) A mental action (e.g., to think, to guess, to consider).
E.g. Nim 'guessed' the right number.

iii) A state of being (e.g., to be, to exist, to appear).
E.g. It 'was' a joke.
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Regular and Irregular Verbs

Regular verbs – 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. Here's how past participle of regular verbs is formed.

i) If the verb ends with 'a vowel', only 'd' is added.
E.g.
a) Share – Shared, has shared
b) Scare – Scared, has scared
c) Dare – Dared, has dared.
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ii) If a regular verb ends with 'a consonant', 'ed' is added.

E.g.
a) Want – Wanted
b) Shout – Shouted
c) Kill – Killed
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English verbs have five basic forms:
i) The base form(or root),
ii) 3rd person singular or –s form,
iii) –ing form (Present participle),
iv) Past form,
v) Past participle form.

This lesson will focus on the present, past and past participle forms.

The root form is usually the easiest form to figure out. It’s the infinitive form with to removed:
To see – see
To be – be
To wear – wear
To go – go
To be – be
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Look at these examples:

i) Last night I 'chose' what to have for dinner; today you 'choose' the cuisine.
'Chose' is the past simple tense of 'choose'.

ii) The pond is starting to 'freeze'. Do you remember when it 'froze' last year?
'Freeze' is the simple tense form of the verb. Froze is the past simple tense.

iii) He has hidden my key somewhere and I can't find it. Did he tell you where he hid it? I'm going to tell him not to hide my things; it's not funny!
Hide is the present tense, hid is the past simple and hidden is the past participle form of the verb.

Strictly speaking, in English, only two tenses are marked in the verb alone, present (as in \'he sings\') and past (as in \'he sang\').
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a) When to use the simple past tense
We use the simple past tense for actions that began and finished in the past. We do not have to say exactly when. The important thing is that it happened and is not happening now.
E.g. I ate it.

b) When to use the past participle:
The past participle is used with the following tenses:
i) Present Perfect: I have seen it.
ii) Past Perfect: I had seen it.
iii) Future Perfect: I will have seen it.
iv) 3rd Conditional: I would have seen it.
v) Passives: It was seen.
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Pick the correct option:
I am hungry. I haven't ______
eat
ate
Arrange the jumbled words
    • is
    • was
    • New York yesterday
    • Stanley
    • in
    • has been
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    We ______
    beat
    beated
    beaten
    Pick the correct option:
    Hollywood ______
    bid
    bidded
    Pick the correct option:
    A consortium of dealers ______
    bid or bade
    bid (but not bade)
    bidded
    Pick the correct option:
    I haven't ______
    begun
    beginned
    began
    beganned
    Pick the correct option:
    I wouldn't have ______
    guessed
    guessen
    guess
    guessened
    Pick the correct option:
    Your buggy product ______
    cost
    costed
    Pick the correct option:
    An insect ______
    crept
    creeped
    Pick the correct option:
    She ______
    cloth
    clothed
    clothe
    Pick the correct option:
    I have ______
    had
    have
    haved
    Pick the correct option:
    The raiders ______
    fed
    feded
    feeded
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    They ______
    forbade
    forbidded
    forbidden
    Pick the correct option:
    She had ______
    run
    ran
    Pick the correct option:
    A strong wind ______
    woke
    wake
    waked
    woken
    Pick the correct option:
    Have you ______
    caught
    catched
    Pick the correct option:
    How many pieces have you ______
    cut
    cutted
    cutten
    Pick the correct option:
    Have you ever ______
    gone
    went
    go
    goned
    Pick the correct option:
    She ______
    put
    putted
    putten
    Arrange the jumble words.
    • lost
    • my watch yesterday
    • I
    • loose
    • loosed
    • losed
    Pick the correct option:
    He was ______
    killed
    kill
    Pick the correct option:
    He has ______
    written
    wrote
    write
    wrotten
    Pick the correct option:
    Yesterday, they ______
    cleaned
    cleant
    cleand
    cleanded
    Pick the correct option:
    The Mississippi River, which is the chief river of the United States, ______
    flows
    flew
    flowed
    Pick the correct option:
    Do you know that Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, ______
    is headed
    headed
    head
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    Amelia Earhart was the first woman ______
    to fly
    flew
    flying
    Pick the correct option:
    My sister ______
    bought
    brought
    buyed
    Pick the correct option:
    We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but for the billions of underprivileged people out there who would be ______
    most affected
    most effected
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