Lesson thirteen
13.1 Irregular Verbs
Some verbs do not form the past by adding -d or –ed. These verbs are called irregular verbs. There are only about sixty frequently used irregular verbs. For many of these, the past and the past participles are spelled the same but some are different.
Examples:
He saw great misery all around him – past
He has seen great misery all round him – past participle
For a few irregular verbs, like hit and cut, the three principal parts are spelled the same.
These ones offer no problems to learners. Most problems come from irregular verbs with three different forms.
For example, the irregular verbs throw and ring.
Throw threw had thrown
Ring rang had rung
If you are not sure about a verb form, look it up in the dictionary.
13.2 Exercise 13
Write the past tense and past participles of the following irregular verbs and then use each of them in sentences of your own.
- arise fall
- tear blow
- wear freeze
- lay fly
- see write
- fall
- blow
- freeze
- fly
- write