Regular / Irregular Verbs

Regular / Irregular Verbs

1. Regular

   • Do not change their form often
     • the past tense and past participle tense of regular verbs is formed by adding '-d' or '-ed'
       • "Johnny is going to kick the ball" "Johnny kicked the ball"
     • Future tense is made by the verb staying the same and adding words such as "will" or "going to"
       • "Johnny will kick the ball soon" "Johnny is going to kick the ball"
     • adding '-s' for singular third person
       • "She walks quickly"
     • adding '-ing' to create the present participle
       • "She is walking quickly"
     • more commonly found than irregular verbs

2. Irregular

   • Does not conform to the rule of creating simple past tense and past participle
     • All three forms (infinitive, simple past and past participle) are similar
       • "Kelly shut the door" "Kelly has shut the door"
     • Infinitive and simple past are similar
       • "He beat me" "He has beaten me"
     • Infinitive and past participle are similar
       • "He ran" "He has run"
     • simple past and past participle are similar
       • "I have a pet fish" "I had a pet fish"
     • all three forms (infinitive, simple past and past participle) are different
       • "I will begin soon" "She began the task" "I have begun"

3. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence