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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.

InfinitivePresent
Participle		 Past Past
Participle
(to + verb) (the -ing form) (Yesterday I . . . ) (I had . . . She has . . .
You have . . . )
begin beginning beganbegun
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 chosechosen
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 heldheld
keep keeping keptkept
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
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2. Quotation Marks Part Three
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3. compound subjects part two
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4. Using Capital Letters
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5. the prepositional phrase
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6. the indirect object
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7. what good writers do
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8. the adverb
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9. the pronoun
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10. the appositive
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11. The possessive case
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12. the adjective clause
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13. the direct object
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14. Sound a like words Part Two
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15. The Apostrophe
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16. The Colon
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17. The verb be
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18. Second Capitalization List
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19. Quotation Marks Part Two
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20. the correlative conjunction
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21. Confusing usage words part one
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22. complete and simple subjects
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23. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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24. Commas Part Four
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25. complex sentences
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26. Confusing usage words part three
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27. Sound a like words Part Four
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28. Commas Part Five
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29. More Apostrophe Situations
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30. complete and simple predicates
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31. the noun clause
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32. Commas Part Three
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33. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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34. compound subject and compound predicate
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35. Confusing usage words part three
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36. Confusing usage words part six
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37. Commas Part One
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38. the object of the preposition
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39. introducing clauses
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40. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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41. Confusing usage words part four
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42. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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43. types of nouns
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44. personal pronouns
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45. Confusing usage words part five
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46. compound subjects part one
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47. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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48. the subordinating conjunction
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49. Confusing usage words part eight
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50. Sound alike words part one
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