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Practical English Grammar

irregular verbs part one

Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding -d or -ed to the verb’s
present tense Thus, use becomes used, and call becomes called. Irregular verbs form their
past and past participle forms differently. The present tense break becomes broke in its pasttense
form and broken in its past participle form. The present tense verb buy becomes bought
in its past and past participle forms.

Infinitive	Present Participle	Past	Past Participle
(to + verb)	(the -ing form)	(Yesterday I . . . )	(I had . . . She has . . . You have . . . )
begin	beginning	began	begun
blow	blowing	blew	blown
break	breaking	broke	broken
bring	bringing	brought	brought
burst	bursting	burst	burst
buy	buying	bought	bought
catch	catching	caught	caught
choose	choosing	chose	chosen
come	coming	came	come
cost	costing	cost	cost
do	doing	did	done
draw	drawing	drew	drawn
drink	drinking	drank	drunk
drive	driving	drove	driven
eat	eating	ate	eaten
fall	falling	fell	fallen
feel	feeling	felt	felt
find	finding	found	found
freeze	freezing	froze	frozen
get	getting	got	got (or gotten)
give	giving	gave	given
go	going	went	gone
hold	holding	held	held
keep	keeping	kept	kept
know	knowing	knew	known
lay (to place)	laying	laid laid
lead	leading	led	led
leave	leaving	left	left

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Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. compound subjects part two

4. the adverb

5. the adjective clause

6. the indirect object

7. Using Capital Letters

8. the pronoun

9. The Apostrophe

10. the infinitive and infinitive phrase

11. The possessive case

12. Sound a like words Part Four

13. the appositive

14. the preposition

15. the object of the preposition

16. the adverb phrase

17. the adjective

18. what good writers do

19. The verb be

20. introducing phrases

21. the noun clause

22. The Semicolon

23. the correlative conjunction

24. the adjective phrase

25. The Colon

26. complete and simple subjects

27. the subordinating conjunction

28. the direct object

29. Confusing usage words part six

30. the noun

31. Confusing usage words part three

32. the verb

33. The possessive case and pronouns

34. the adverb clause

35. complex sentences

36. agreement involving prepositional phrases

37. Confusing usage words part eight

38. Transitive and intransitive verbs

39. types of sentences by purpose

40. complete and simple predicates

41. types of nouns

42. The nominative case

43. Confusing usage words part three

44. Sound a like words Part Three

45. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

46. Commas Part One

47. Quotation Marks Part Two

48. First Capitalization List

49. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

50. indefinite pronouns