Help ESL Learners Learn Irregular Verbs

see: see, saw, seen, seeing

• I see a girl. (Present tense.)
  Does she see me? (Present tense.)
  I see a girl. (Present tense.)
  She sees me. (Present tense.)
  I see geese. (Present tense.)
  The geese see me. (Present tense.)
  
  Yesterday, I saw thirty geese. (Past tense.)
  The geese saw me. (Past tense.)
  I had seen geese before. (Past perfect ("had" + past participle))
  I had never seen so many geese before then. (Past perfect ("had" + past participle))
  I hadn't seen flying geese before either. (Past perfect ("had" + past participle))
  I had seen ducks before. (Past perfect ("had" + past participle))
  Yesterday, I saw two more. (Past tense.)

do: do, did, done, doing

I do it.
I did it.
I have done it.
I have been doing it for years.

see: see, saw, seen, seeing

I have seen two, and I have seen four.
I have seen three, and I have seen more.
I saw three geese yesterday.
I saw four geese today.
Do you see what I see?
Satellites are seen by reflected sunlight.

know: know, knew, known

I know what I know.
I know Susie.
I know how to play baseball.

I knew that would happen.
I hardly knew him.
I knew that increased demand would lead to higher prices.

I have known him for years.
I have known that for a long time.
It has been known for a while.

grow: grow, grew, grown

I'll grow when I grow.
Bananas grow in the tropics.

I grew too big for my britches.
My head grew too big for my hat.

Demand for our product has grown, and we need a bigger plant.
The pumpkin has grown to an enormous size.

take, took taken

• Here, take this.
  Okay, I will take it.
  
  I took it.
  It has been taken.
  
  Q: Who took the book?
  A: The cook took the book?

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steal, stole, stolen

• Somebody stole the car.
  It has been stolen.

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hello evry bady.

The past tense of steal is stole, Examples:

You stole my thunder.
Somebody stole my wallet.
Somebody stole his car. (He reported that it had been stolen (past perfect).

~R