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Regular and Irregular Verb

The document discusses regular and irregular verbs in English. Regular verbs form their past and past participle by adding -ed, while irregular verbs do not follow this pattern and may have different spellings for their past and past participle forms. Various verb tenses such as present, past, future, progressive, and past perfect are also defined.

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Regular and Irregular Verb

The document discusses regular and irregular verbs in English. Regular verbs form their past and past participle by adding -ed, while irregular verbs do not follow this pattern and may have different spellings for their past and past participle forms. Various verb tenses such as present, past, future, progressive, and past perfect are also defined.

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DELLAVA, ANGELICA MAE C.

A Regular verb is any verb whose conjugation follows the typical pattern, or one of the typical
patterns, of the language to which it belongs.

Regular verbs from their past and past participle forms by adding -ed .

Examples:

Present Past Past Participle


Accept Accepted Accepted
Act Acted Acted
Bake Baked Baked
Behave Behaved Behaved
Knock Knocked Knocked
Order Ordered Ordered
Greet Greeted Greeted
Die Died Died
Freeze Freezed Freezed
Fix Fixed Fixed

A verb whose conjugation follows a different pattern is called irregular verb.

The past form and the past participle form do not end in ed and may have different spelling.

Examples:

Base Form Past Simple Past Participle


become became became
swim swam Swam
teach taught Taught
hear heard Heard
eat ate eaten
did do Done
fly flow Flown
dream dreamt Dreamt
sell sold Sold
speak spoke spoken
Present Tense- a tense expressing an action that is currently going on or habitually performed,
or a state that currently or generally exist

Past Tense- a tense expressing an action that has happened or a state that previously accepted

Future Tense- a tense expressing an action that has not yet happened or a state that does not
yet exist

Progressive Tense- a tense that is used to refer to an action or a state that is continuing to
happen

Past Perfect Tense- tense used to show that an action took place once or many times before
another point in the past

Progressive Past Perfect


Present Tense Past Tense Future Tense Tense Tense
I study I studied Will study Am studying Had studied
walks walked Will walk Am walking Was walking
eat ate Will eat Am eating Had eaten
I do I did I will do I had been doing I had done
I brush I brushed I will brush Im brushing I had brushed
knock knocked Will knock knocking knocked
I speak I spoked I will speak Im speaking I had spoked
swim swam Will swim swimming Had swam
bake baked Will bake baking Had baked
accept accepted Will accept accepting Had accept

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