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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. compound subjects part two

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

4. complete and simple subjects

5. Sound a like words Part Four

6. Commas Part Two

7. the adjective clause

8. what good writers do

9. the indirect object

10. the object of the preposition

11. Commas Part Four

12. The Apostrophe

13. Confusing usage words part five

14. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

15. subject and verb agreement

16. Quotation Marks Part Two

17. First Capitalization List

18. The coordinating conjunction

19. Confusing usage words part one

20. Confusing usage words part three

21. Confusing usage words part three

22. Transitive and intransitive verbs

23. Quotation Marks Part One

24. compound subjects part one

25. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

26. subject verb agreement situations

27. complex sentences

28. the verb phrase

29. The nominative case

30. the participle and participial phrase

31. agreement involving prepositional phrases

32. pronouns and their antecedents

33. introducing phrases

34. the prepositional phrase

35. types of nouns

36. the gerund and gerund phrase

37. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

38. Commas Part One

39. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

40. regular verb tenses

41. the correlative conjunction

42. personal pronouns

43. the appositive

44. the infinitive and infinitive phrase

45. Confusing usage words part four

46. Active and passive voices

47. More subject verb agreement situations

48. the noun adjective pronoun question

49. irregular verbs part two

50. sentences fragments and run on sentences