Help ESL Learners Learn Irregular Verbs

Here you will find irregular verb lists, explanations of the grammar of various irregular verbs and examples of their use.

The Irregular Verb Tutorial (Delphi): http://forums.delphiforums.com/Using...ges?msg=5192.1



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Some irregular verbs undergo a vowel change every time they change tenses. (The only exception to that is the past or present progressive.) Here is a list of those verbs.

• begin, began, begun
  drink, drank, drunk
  ring, rang, rung
  shrink, shrank, shrunk
  sing, sang, sung
  sink, sank, sunk
  stink, stank, stunk
  swim, swam, swum

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• http://forums.delphiforums.com/Using...ges?msg=5192.1

Here are the words that have been discussed there so far:

• spread
  mean
  read
  beat
  lose
  arise
  awake
  bear
  make
  ride
  tear
  know
  send
  bite
  feed
  lead
  lie
  come
  run
  set
  put
  let
  is (to be)
  blow
  throw
  catch
  buy
  bring
  do
  go
  see
  find
  keep
  begin

Please feel free to make additional contributions. That could include either words that have been discussed already or words that haven't been discussed yet.

We could think of the irregular verbs that have no change. - cut, put


There are also the irregular ones that have the same past and past participle forms. - thought, taught

Like 'let' and 'set'? ;-)

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Originally Posted by tdol

Like 'let' and 'set'? ;-)

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Yep. I have a couple - or 3? - lists of irregular verbs that divide them up into different types depending on how they change. I'm going to have to make a combined list of what I have. Each list has something the other doesn't. It shouldn't be too difficult to account for the differences and make one combined list. There aren't too many differences - I don't think.

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Originally Posted by CitySpeak

We could think of the irregular verbs that have no change. - cut, put


There are also the irregular ones that have the same past and past participle forms. - thought, taught

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I have lists of both forms, but feel free to use your own.

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Some irregular verbs make no changes between the base form and the past tense and past participle.

• Irregular Verbs—Past and Past Participle Forms are the same as the Base Form in these Irregular Verbs
  
  Bet
  Bid
  Bust
  Cast
  Cost
  Cut
  Fit
  Hit
  Let
  Outbid
  Preset
  Put
  Quit
  Read
  Recast
  Reset
  Rid
  Set
  Shed
  Shit
  Shut
  Sit
  Slit
  Split
  Spread
  Underbid
  Upset
  Wed
  Wet

See: http://www.usingenglish.com/irregular-verb-list.html

shed

• The snake shed its skin and left behind the skin it was in.

• Every year, snakes shed their skins.

The past tense and past participle of shed is shed.

spread

• The newspapers were spread out on the floor.

• This morning I spread some jam on my bread.

The past tense and past participle of spread is spread.

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