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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. Using Capital Letters

5. the adverb

6. the adjective clause

7. the indirect object

8. The Apostrophe

9. the appositive

10. the pronoun

11. Sound a like words Part Four

12. The verb be

13. The possessive case

14. The Colon

15. the correlative conjunction

16. what good writers do

17. the adjective

18. the noun clause

19. the direct object

20. the subordinating conjunction

21. Confusing usage words part six

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. complete and simple subjects

24. irregular verbs part two

25. complex sentences

26. agreement involving prepositional phrases

27. the prepositional phrase

28. Confusing usage words part three

29. the verb

30. More Apostrophe Situations

31. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes

32. complete and simple predicates

33. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case

34. Confusing usage words part one

35. Sound a like words Part Two

36. Commas Part Four

37. Commas Part Five

38. compound complex sentences

39. the preposition

40. Sound a like words Part Three

41. Commas Part Three

42. The Semicolon

43. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

44. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

45. Commas Part One

46. Commas Part Two

47. Second Capitalization List

48. compound subject and compound predicate

49. Confusing usage words part seven

50. Misplaced and dangling modifiers