1. What did you eat for breakfast?
I et six eggs.

2. You mean “ate,” don’t you?

3. Maybe it was eight I et.

4. Irregular Verbs

5. Common Verb Mistakes Drew had went to the store.
I done my project already.
The track team has ran two miles.
Somebody had took my hall pass.
I loss my money because the Coke machine was broke.

6. Common Verb Mistakes Drew had gone to the store.
I did my project already.
The track team have run two miles.
Somebody had taken my hall pass.
I lost my money because the Coke machine was broken.

7. What are irregular verbs?
A regular verb shows the past with a –d or –ed ending.
Ex:
Today I present my new menu.
I presented the previous menu last March.

8. Irregular verbs do not take the –d or –ed ending.
They are changed in various other ways to indicate past tense.

9. Examples believe → believed smile → smiled Irregular run → ran
eat → ate

10. An irregular verb forms its past and past participle by
changing vowels (run-- ran) or consonants (build– built)
or by changing vowels and consonants (catch – caught)
or by making no changes (burst, cost)

11. Principal Parts of Verbs
Every verb has four basic parts, which are called its principal parts. You must know all of these in order to form the different tenses correctly.
Present (aka Infinitive)
Past
Present Participle
Past Participle

12. Present (aka Infinitive)
existing or happening now
know to know
take to take
write to write

13. Past
existed or happened in the past
knew
took
wrote

14. Present Participle
The present participle of a verb always ends in –ing.
knowing
taking
writing

15. Past Participle
The past participle of a verb always requires a helping verb (have, has, had).
had known
have taken
has written

16. Practice Present Past Past Participle begin 1. began have begun
freeze 2. froze have frozen
write wrote have written
blow blew have blown
drive drove have driven
wear wore have worn
sing sang have sung
ride rode have ridden

17. Practice Present Past Past Participle choose chose 9. have chosen
go went have gone
run ran have run
throw threw have thrown
come came have come
see saw have seen
speak spoke have spoken
burst burst have burst

18. Practice Present Past Past Participle Swim swam 17. have swum
Sink sank sunk
Break 19. broke have broken
Bring 20. brought have brought