Section outline

  • Regular Verbs

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    Regular Verbs are verbs which follow the standard rule of adding either 'ed' or 'd' to the verb to form their past tense & past participle.

    Examples:

    Verb  Past Tense   Past Participle 
    play played played
    dance danced danced
     believe  believed believed
    walk  walked walked
     end ended  ended 

  • Irregular Verbs

    Irregular Verbs are verbs which don’t follow any standard rule to form their past tense & past participle.

    Examples:

    Verb  Past Tense   Past Participle 
    run ran run
    give gave given
     awake  awoke awaken
    buy  bought bought
     fall fell fallen
     cut cut  cut 

  • Importance

    Regular & irregular verbs are important for:

    1. Forming correct past tenses.
    2. Forming correct tenses, right past participle should be used.
    3. Correct communication.
    4. Grammatically correct English.

    Hence, proper knowledge of regular & irregular verbs is required for grammatically correct sentences and communicating effectively.

  • Summary

    In this course, we learn't:

    1. Concept of regular verbs.
    2. Irregular verbs.
    3. We should use their correct form for the tenses.

    In the next course we will know more about most commonly used modal verbs.