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Verb Tenses: (Regular and Irregular Verbs) - Practice 1

This document provides examples of regular and irregular verbs. It lists the principal parts of regular verbs as present, present participle, past, and past participle. For irregular verbs, it only lists the present, past, and past participle, with students required to fill in the missing present participle. Two exercises are included, one requiring students to fill in the missing principal parts of irregular verbs, and another requiring students to choose the correct verb form based on context.

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Verb Tenses: (Regular and Irregular Verbs) - Practice 1

This document provides examples of regular and irregular verbs. It lists the principal parts of regular verbs as present, present participle, past, and past participle. For irregular verbs, it only lists the present, past, and past participle, with students required to fill in the missing present participle. Two exercises are included, one requiring students to fill in the missing principal parts of irregular verbs, and another requiring students to choose the correct verb form based on context.

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23.1 Verb Tenses (Regular and Irregular Verbs)


• Practice 1
Regular and Irregular Verbs A regular verb is one whose past and past participle are formed by
adding -ed or -d to the present form.

PRINCIPAL PARTS OF REGULAR VERBS


Present Present Participle Past Past Participle
learn learning learned (have) learned
carry carrying carried (have) carried
promise promising promised (have) promised
drip dripping dripped (have) dripped
An irregular verb is one whose past and past participle are not formed by adding -ed or -d to the present
form.

PRINCIPAL PARTS OF IRREGULAR VERBS


Present Present Participle Past Past Participle
cost costing cost (have) cost
put putting put (have) put
bring bringing brought (have) brought
sleep sleeping slept (have) slept
draw drawing drew (have) drawn
freeze freezing froze (have) frozen
rise rising rose (have) risen

Exercise 1 Writing the Principal Parts of Irregular Verbs. Add the missing principal parts.

EXAMPLE: speak speaking spoke (have) spoken

1. writing
2. flew
3. see
4. (have) spun
5. hurt
6. fighting
7. (have) driven
8. spend
9. wound
10. eating

Exercise 2 Recognizing Principal Parts of Verbs. Fill in each blank with the correct verb form
from those given in parentheses.
EXAMPLE: Sasha never had sung in public before. (sang, sung)
1. The balloon suddenly. (burst, busted)
2. The sweater in the wash. (shrank, shrinked)
3. They all of their money out of the bank. (drew, drawed)
4. Aunt Mary she would help us. (sayed, said)
5. Jack up the beanstalk. (climbed, clumb)

 Prentice-Hall, Inc. Verb Tenses (Regular and Irregular Verbs) • 115

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