Do you remember the irregular verbs in English we were learning in high school? Let’s do a quick review on this topic.
A Video Summary About Irregular Verbs in English
A few explanations about Irregular Verbs in English
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
A Video Summary About Irregular Verbs in English
A few explanation about Irregular Verbs in English
Irregular verbs are those that don’t form the past simple or past participle forms by adding the ending -ED.
For example
| VERB | PAST SIMPLE FORM | PAST PARTICIPLE FORM |
| BE | WAS/WERE | BEEN |
There are two common mistakes that students make in relation to irregular verbs,
1. They try to form the past or past participle form as they would with a regular verb, by adding -ED
e.g., I goed to the park yesterday.
2. They use the wrong form, for example the past simple form, when they should be using the past participle form.
e.g., I haven’t ate anything all day.
There are roughly 140 common irregular verbs, which you should try to learn in order to increase your English level and reduce related mistakes.
Whilst there are no specific rules to help you with this, it does help to group irregular verbs into groups of similar verbs, for example the following irregular verbs can be grouped together because they don’t change.
| VERB | PAST SIMPLE FORM | PAST PARTICIPLE FORM |
| PUT | PUT | PUT |
| CUT | CUT | CUT |
| BET | BET | BET |
| COST | COST | COST |
Check out the full list of irregular verbs in English
Exercises about Irregular Verbs
Exercise 1 Match the base verb with its past simple form
Match the base verb with its past participle form
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Exercise 2 Complete the sentences by using the past simple or past participle forms of the verb given in brackets
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Exercise 3 Group these irregular verbs by similar categories
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