Irregular Verbs Susan Mosley run Ran

swum Swam Swim Irregular Verbs An irregular verb forms its past and past participle in some way other than by adding –d or –ed to the base form. swum Swam Read the title and definitions Swim

Verb Forms Explain that there are two types of verb forms one is regular and the other irregular. We will be focusing on irregular verbs during this presentation

Regular Verbs Regular verbs form their past tense and past participle by adding –ed or –d to their present tense form. More than 95% of all English verbs are regular. Regular verbs cause few problems in speaking and writing. Read

Regular verbs and their Principal Parts Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle call call, calls (is) calling called (have) called dust dust, dusts (is) dusting dusted (have) dusted Read chart and point out how each word changes for each tense.

Irregular Verbs Irregular verbs can form their past tense and past participle forms in various way. These forms cause even native speakers innumerable problems. The most irregular verb of all is the verb to be. Another irregular verb that is important for its use with other verbs is the verb to have. Read

Four Principal/Main Parts of helping verbs be and have Principal Parts: Verb: Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle To Be be, am, are, is being was, were (have) been To Have have, has having had (have) had Read chart detailing each tense for each verb; explain that the past participle of these two verbs is used with the past participle of irregular verbs

Comparing Regular and Irregular Verb Forms Principal Parts: Verb: Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle Call (Regular) call, calls (is) calling called (have) called Write (irregular) write, writes (is) writing wrote (have) written Read and show differences between the two forms

Past Tense Past tense expresses action completed at a definite time in the past. Examples: Regular Verb: He delivered the letter yesterday. (deliver, delivered) She lived to be 90 years old. (live, lived) Irregular Verb: I ate at the new restaurant last night. (ate, eat) She laid her head down on the table. (lay, laid) Read & tell that the underlined words are the verbs; tell that at the end of each sentence is a listing of how that verb looks present and past tense

Past Participle All verbs in this tense must have a helping verb in front of it Forms of be Forms of have Examples Regular Verbs These Spanish folk dancers must have practiced for a long time Eli may have looked under the table for the cat. Irregular Verbs Those tickets shouldn’t have cost so much. Well, nephew, you surely have grown. Read & explain that the underlined are the verbs and the orange words are the helping verbs

Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle see see, sees (is) seeing saw (have) seen do do, does (is) doing did (have) done fly fly, flies (is) flying flew (have) flown run run, runs (is) running ran (have) run Read the chart & explain that the verbs in the orange column can change or stay the same as the present tense for irregular verbs; Explain that the pink column can change or stay the same as the orange column for irregular verbs

Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle leave leave, leaves (is) leaving left (have) left lend lend, lends lending lent (have) lent let let, lets letting (have) let light light, lights lighting lighted or lit (have) lighted or lit Continue reading showing difference as discussed on the previous slide; also note that sometimes a verb may have more than one spelling in the past tense and the past participle for irregular verbs like the word light

Common Irregular Verbs and their Principal Parts Present Tense Present Participle Past Tense Past Participle make make, makes (is) making made (have) made pay pay, pays paying paid (have) paid shrink shrink, shrinks shrinking Shrank or shrunk (have) shrunk take take, takes taking took (have) taken

Can you finish the chart? Base form Present participle Past Past Participle throw fell (is) winning (have) forgiven (is) fighting spent (have) ridden freeze Ask students to finish the chart (call on a student for each; have them write on individual white boards; have write on paper) go to next page when finished for answers

Answers Base form Present participle Past Past Participle throw (is) throwing threw (have) thrown fall (is) falling fell (have) fallen win (is) winning won (have) won forgive (is) forgiving forgave (have) forgiven fight (is) fighting fought (have) fought spend (is) spending spent (have) spent ride (is) riding rode (have) ridden freeze (is) freezing Froze (have) frozen Discuss answers that the students had wrong

Let’s Practice!!! I have already (spoken, spoke, spoked) to the optician about my new pair of contact lenses. spoke I have always (do, doed, done) my homework right after supper. done The apples we dried in the sun have (shrink, shrinked, shrunk). shrunk Read the sentence and give students time to answer before clicking for answers

Michael (ran, run, runned) the 100-meter dash in excellent time. ran King Arthur’s sword Excalibur had (sink, sinked, sunk) slowly to the bottom of the lake. sunk Michael (ran, run, runned) the 100-meter dash in excellent time. ran Before the softball game, my friend Gabriela (lend, lent, lended) me her glove. lent Read the sentence and give students time to answer before clicking for answers

We have never (go, goed, gone) to see the Parthenon in Nashville. gone Have you ever (flew, fly, flown) coast to coast using Eastern Airlines’ excursion rates? flown The weather forecast this morning (say, sayed, said) to expect snow flurries. said Read the sentence and give students time to answer before clicking for answers