Transcript Verb Tense

Irregular Verbs
Susan Mosley
Irregular Verbs
An irregular verb forms its past and past participle in
some way other than by adding –d or –ed to the base
form.
Verb Forms
Verb Forms
Regular
Irregular
Regular Verbs
Regular verbs form their past tense and
past participle by adding –ed or –d to
their present tense form.
 More than 95% of all English verbs are
regular.
 Regular verbs cause few problems in
speaking and writing.

Regular verbs and their
Principal Parts
Principal
Parts:
Present Present Past
Participle Tense
Tense
Past
call
call,
calls
(is)
calling
called
(have)
called
dust
dust,
dusts
(is)
dusting
dusted
(have)
dusted
Participle
Verb:
Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs can form their past tense
and past participle forms in various way.
 These forms cause even native speakers
innumerable problems.
 The most irregular verb of all is the verb
to be.
 Another irregular verb that is important
for its use with other verbs is the verb to
have.

Four Principal/Main Parts
of helping verbs be and have
Principal
Parts:
Present
Tense
Present
Past
Participle Tense
Past
be, am,
are, is
being
was,
were
(have)
been
having
had
(have)
had
Participle
Verb:
To Be
To Have have,
has
Comparing Regular and Irregular
Verb Forms
Principal
Parts:
Present Present Past Past
Tense Participle Tense Participle
Verb:
Call
call,
(Regular) calls
(is)
calling
called (have)
called
Write
write,
(irregular) writes
(is)
writing
(have)
wrote written
Past Tense
Past tense expresses action completed at
a definite time in the past.
 Examples:

◦ Regular Verb:
 He delivered the letter yesterday. (deliver,
delivered)
 She lived to be 90 years old. (live, lived)
◦ Irregular Verb:
 I ate at the new restaurant last night. (ate, eat)
 She laid her head down on the table. (lay, laid)
Past Participle

All verbs in this tense must have a helping
verb in front of it
◦ Forms of be
◦ Forms of have

Examples
◦ Regular Verbs
 These Spanish folk dancers must have practiced for
a long time
 Eli may have looked under the table for the cat.
◦ Irregular Verbs
 Those tickets shouldn’t have cost so much.
 Well, nephew, you surely have grown.
Common Irregular Verbs and
their Principal Parts
Principal
Part
Verb
Present
Tense
see
see,
(is)
saw
sees
seeing
do, does (is)
did
doing
fly, flies (is) flying flew
do
fly
run
Present
Participle
run, runs (is)
running
Past Tense
ran
Past
Participle
(have)
seen
(have)
done
(have)
flown
(have)
run
Common Irregular Verbs and
their Principal Parts
Principal
Part
Verb
Present
Tense
Present
Participle
Past Tense
Past
Participle
leave
leave,
leaves
left
(have)
left
lend
lend,
lends
lent
(have)
lent
let
let, lets
let
(have)
let
light
light,
lights
(is)
leaving
(is)
lending
(is)
letting
(is)
lighting
lighted
or lit
(have)
lighted
or lit
Common Irregular Verbs and
their Principal Parts
Principal
Part
Verb
Present Tense Present
Participle
Past Tense
Past
Participle
make
make,
makes
made
(have)
made
paid
(have)
paid
Shrank or
shrunk
(have)
shrunk
took
(have)
taken
(is)
making
pay
pay, pays (is)
paying
shrink shrink,
(is)
shrinks
shrinking
take
take,
(is)
takes
taking
Can you finish the chart?
Base form
Present
participle
Past
Past Participle
throw
fell
(is) winning
(have) forgiven
(is) fighting
spent
(have) ridden
freeze
Answers
Base form
Present
participle
Past
Past Participle
throw
(is) throwing
threw
(have) thrown
fall
(is) falling
fell
(have) fallen
win
(is) winning
won
(have) won
forgive
(is) forgiving
forgave
(have) forgiven
fight
(is) fighting
fought
(have) fought
spend
(is) spending
spent
(have) spent
ride
(is) riding
rode
(have) ridden
freeze
(is) freezing
Froze
(have) frozen
Let’s Practice!!!
I have already (spoken, spoke, spoked) to the
optician about my new pair of contact lenses.
 spoke
 I have always (do, doed, done) my homework
right after supper.
 done
 The apples we dried in the sun have (shrink,
shrinked, shrunk).
 shrunk

King Arthur’s sword Excalibur had (sink, sinked,
sunk) slowly to the bottom of the lake.
 sunk
 Michael (ran, run, runned) the 100-meter dash
in excellent time.
 ran
 Before the softball game, my friend Gabriela
(lend, lent, lended) me her glove.
 lent

We have never (go, goed, gone) to see the
Parthenon in Nashville.
 gone
 Have you ever (flew, fly, flown) coast to
coast using Eastern Airlines’ excursion
rates?
 flown
 The weather forecast this morning (say,
sayed, said) to expect snow flurries.
 said
