Regular and Irregular Verbs for beginners

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Based on how we conjugate verbs in the past simple and the past participle, they can be divided into two types: Regular verbs and Irregular verbs.

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"Regular and Irregular Verbs" in English Grammar

What Are Regular Verbs?

Regular verbs follow a normal pattern when they are used in different tenses. They usually get '-ed' at the end to form the past tense and past participle of the verb. Here is the table of some of the common regular verbs:

	Past Tense	Past Participle
Ask	asked	asked
Talk	talked	talked
Call	called	called
Play	played	played
Start	started	started
Watch	watched	watched
Change	changed	changed

Check out some examples:

She played basketball back then.

She has changed the keys to the house.

'work' is a regular verb

We talked to him yesterday.

What Are Irregular Verbs?

Irregular verbs do not follow a rule to form past tense and past participle. Here are some of the most common irregular verbs:

	Past Tense	Past Perfect
Be	was/were	been
Do	did	done
Break	broke	broken
Eat	ate	eaten
Get	got	got
Go	went	gone
Make	made	made

Now, let's see these verbs in action:

When I arrived, she was gone.

I made some tea for myself.

I've done my homework.

Verbs

Verbs are one of the most necessary elements to make a sentence. In fact, without a verb, we cannot have a meaningful sentence.

Actions and States

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Auxiliary Verbs

Auxiliary verbs help the main verb to express tense or voice or help make questions and negative sentences. That's why they're also called 'helping verbs'.

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs are used very commonly in English, even more so in informal situations. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition or a particle.

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

'She smiled beautifully'. 'She started a rumor'. One of these sentences has an intransitive verb and one has a transitive one. Want to know the difference?

Ditransitive Verbs

Ditransitive verbs are transitive verbs that take two objects. A direct object and an indirect object. Follow the article to read more about them.

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