Regular Verbs
and
Irregular Verbs

English has regular verbs and irregular verbs. Now, what does that mean?

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Regular Verbs

A regular verb is a verb that follows this rule:


For example, work is a regular verb because:

Dance is a regular verb too. That is because:

Past form of dance = dance + d = danced

We call the present form a base form, or V1 (Verb 1).

We call the past form V2 (Verb 2).

There is another form called V3 (Verb 3). That is the form that we use in the Perfect Tenses.

These are examples of Regular Verbs:

V1	V2	V3
help	helped	helped
open	opened	opened
stop	stopped	stopped
change	changed	changed

Irregular Verbs

An irregular verb is a verb that does not follow that rule.

For example, drink is an irregular verb because the past form of drink is drank, and not "drinked".

Go is an irregular verb too. That is because the past form of go is went, and not "goed".

These are examples of Irregular Verbs:

V1	V2	V3
take	took	taken
buy	bought	bought
eat	ate	eaten
give	gave	given
leave	left	left
am	was	been

The English language has a great number of irregular verbs!

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