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 Verb For ms

I know you can But can you

say hook , say took,
hooked . . . tooked?
 This
presentation
covers the use
of standard
A verb
regular and form item on an
objective
irregular verb test might look
like this . . .
forms.
 Sample Item

Thomas sang
sang along
along until
until the
the CD
CD ended;
ended; then
then asas
A
he was choosing
choosingaanew
newdisk,
disk,he
helost
lostcontrol
controlofof
B
the car and drived
drivedinto
drove intoaaditch.
ditch.
C

A. sung
Is sangis
Is
Drived
,,
B. chosing choosing,is , or
or
incorrect,
incorrect, which
which
C. drove
drove drived aa badly
badly
option
option C fixes.
fixes.
formed verb?
formed verb?
D. No change is necessary.
 Re gular verbs have r elia ble
for ms.

Simple Simple Past Present

Infinitive Present Past Participle Participle
to laugh laugh(s) laughed laughed laughing
to start start(s) started started starting
to travel travel(s) traveled traveled traveling

Or to fish,
fish(es), fished,
fished, fishing!
 Ir r e gular verbs, however,
have no consistent patter ns.

Simple Simple Past Present

Infinitive Present Past Participle Participle
to drive drive(s) drove driven driving
to think think(s) thought thought thinking
to drink drink(s) drank drunk drinking
to swim swim(s) swam swum swimming

For example, to catch,

catch(es), caught,
caught, catching!
 On many objective exams,
you can not use a dictionar y
to look up the cor r ect for m!

X
 W hen in doubt, rely on
“gut” feelings.
Your eyes have seen in print — and your
brain has registered — all of the possible
verb forms that you will encounter for this
skill. If you don’t recognize the right
answer, go with the one that feels right.

Hey, I’ve seen

that verb
before!
Don’t confuse of and
have .

Instead of skipping class to go fishing,

Yolanda should ofhave
studied
studied
for her
for accounting
her
exam.
accounting exam.

My grade
was a
disaster!
Confir m that used to is in
the past tense.

Now that he’s older, Fred has a full-time job,

used
but he use to to
spend
spend
hishis
summers
summers
fishing.
fishing.

You’re a bad
influence!
 Quick Test

Directions: In the items that follow, choose

the option that corrects an error in the
underlined portion(s). If no error exists, choose
“No change is necessary.”

Show me
what you
know.
 Item 1

We knew
knew that
that Charley
Charley had
had hid
hidthe
hidden
thecookies
cookies
the cookies
inin in
A BB
his bedroom, so we stole
stole his
his key
key and
and searched
searched in
in
C
all the dresser drawers.

A. knowed
B. hidden
hidden
C. stealed
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 2

If we had known that you were serving squid

eyeball stew, we would of
of come
comefor
fordinner!
dinner!

A. of came
B. have came
C. have
have come
come
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 3

Priscilla use
use to
used totohave
have
haveaa apet
pet
petparakeet;
parakeet;
parakeet;her
her
hermother’s
mother’s
mother’s
AA
story is that the bird escaped and flewflew away,
away, but
but
B
Priscilla believes that the cat ate it.
C

A. used
used
B. flied
C. eaten
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 4

Julissa was soaked during the afternoon

thunderstorm because she had choosed
choosedtotowalk
walktoto
school rather than drive.

A. chosen
chosen
B. choosen
C. chose
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 5
James brung
brungroses
brought
roses
roses
and
and
andbegged
begged
beggedforgiveness,
forgiveness,
forgiveness,but
butbut
AA
when Rhonda sawsaw that
that her
her ex
ex still
still hadn’t
hadn’t shaved
shaved
B
his ridiculous mustache, she shut
shut thethe door
door in
in his
his
C
face.

A. brought
brought
B. seen
C. shutted
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 6

If Toby had tooken

tookenCharlene’s
Charlene’sadvice,
advice,that
thatbottle
bottleof
of
soda wouldn’t have exploded all over the front of
his new white shirt.

A. took
B. tooked
C. taken
taken
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 7
Cooper laid
laid the
the 10-page
10-page paper
paper onon Professor
Professor
A
Cook’s desk; he had wrote
wrote the
writtenthe
the
last
last
last
sentence
sentence
sentenceat
atat
B
2:50 p.m., and then he ran
ran across
across campus
campus toto
C
deliver the work by the 3 o’clock deadline.

A. layed
B. written
written
C. run
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 8

We would have
have knowen
knowenthat
thatDr.
Dr.Carlson
Carlsonhad
had
moved up the date of the quiz if we attended her
calculus class more frequently.

A. of knowen
B. have
have known
known
C. have knew
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 9
Margaret breaked
breaked
broke the
the
the
cookie
cookie
cookie
and
and
and
gave
gave
gave
half
half
half
tototo
AA BB
the young man stuck in the elevator with her; they

told stories
told stories to
to pass
pass the
the time
time as
as mechanics
mechanics
C
worked on the hydraulics.

A. broke
broke
B. gived
C. telled
D. No change is necessary.
 Item 10

Meredith would have

have went
wentto tothe
theconcert,
concert,but
but
Gregory misplaced the tickets, which they still
haven’t found.

A. of went
B. have gone
have gone
C. have goed
D. No change is necessary.
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