Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses
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 |
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!