REGULAR AND
IRREGULAR VERBS
The action verbs are also
classified as regular and irregular verbs
REGULAR VERBS:
These kind of verbs form their past and past
participle forms by adding –ed.
If
a Verb required -ed, -d, or -t to be added to the Present Tense to form the
Past, with or without any change of the inside vowel, it is also known as a
Weak Verbs.
EG: Walk – walked
– walked
Dance – danced – danced
Paint
– painted – painted
Work
– worked – worked
IRREGULAR VERBS
They form their past and past participle forms in
different ways.
The Verbs form their Past Tense by
merely changing the inside vowel of the Present Tense, without having -ed, or
-d, or -t, added to the Present. Such Verbs are called Strong Verbs, because
they are able to make their Past Tense without having anything added.
There are mainly three types
of irregular verbs.
·
Verbs in which
all the three forms are the same
(e.g. put – put – put)
·
Verbs in which
two of the three forms are the same (e.g. sit – sat – sat)
·
Verbs in which
all three forms are different
(e.g. drink – drank – drunk)
·
Some verbs can be
both regular and irregular. Examples are:
1 Burn – burnt – burnt (irregular)
Burn –
burned – burned (regular)
2 Dream – dreamt – dreamt
(irregular)
Dream
– dreamed – dreamed (regular)
3 Lean – lent – lent (irregular)
Lean
– leaned – leaned (regular)
4 Learn – learnt – learnt (irregular)
Learn
– learned – learned (regular)
5 Leap – leapt – leapt (irregular)
Leap
– leaped – leaped (regular)
6 Smell – smelt – smelt (irregular)
Smell
– smelled – smelled (regular)
7 Spill – spilt – spilt (irregular)
Spill
– spilled – spilled (regular)
8 Spoil – spoilt – spoilt (irregular)
Spoil
– spoiled – spoiled (regular)