English verbs have five basic forms:
the
base form, the - S form,
the - ing
form, the past form, and the past participle form.
There are two types of past forms in
English: those for regular
verbs and those for irregular
verbs.
Regular Verbs
All regular
verbs have similar endings:
- ed, -
d , or
-
ied.
These
endings are added to the base
form.
Examples:
brush / brushed
cook / cooked
discuss /
discussed
fix / fixed
jump / jumped
look / looked
mail / mailed
need / needed
open / opened
pitch / pitched
risk / risked
smell / smelled
trust / trusted
view / viewed
wink / winked
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bake / baked
care / cared
dine / dined
file / filed
giggle / giggled
hope / hoped
like / liked
paste / pasted
stare / stared
smile / smiled
type / typed
use / used
whine / whined
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bully / bullied
bury / buried
cry / cried
dally / dallied
dry / dried
ferry / ferried
fry / fried
marry / married
party / partied
pry / pried
query / queried
tally / tallied
tarry / tarried
try / tried
worry / worried
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Irregular Verbs
The irregular
verbs do not make the past
form by
adding- ed,
-
d
, or -
ied.
Some have the
same base and past form, some
change
vowel
sounds, and a few have completely different base
and
past forms.
Examples
(there are many more in each
category):
beat / beat
cost /
cost
cut / cut
hit
/
hit
hurt / hurt
let / let
quit / quit
set / set
shed
/ shed
slit / slit |
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arise / arose
break / broke
buy / bought
come
/ came
draw /
drew
fall / fell
find
/ found
get / got
hide
/ hid
meet / met
run / ran
see / saw
take / took
write
/ wrote
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|
be / was,
were
do / did
go / went
have
/ had |
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spelling regular past forms
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