English

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

--- >>>

Notes

Practical English Grammar - Notes

1. Italics Hyphens and Brackets

2. Quotation Marks Part Three

3. compound subjects part two

4. Sound a like words Part Four

5. Second Capitalization List

6. Confusing usage words part six

7. Regular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

8. the noun

9. complete and simple subjects

10. the adverb

11. the object of the preposition

12. irregular verbs part two

13. Confusing usage words part three

14. More Apostrophe Situations

15. the indirect object

16. the noun clause

17. Irregular Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs

18. agreement involving prepositional phrases

19. the prepositional phrase

20. The possessive case

21. Confusing usage words part two

22. Quotation Marks Part Two

23. complex sentences

24. the adjective phrase

25. the verb

26. the subordinating conjunction

27. The Colon

28. The possessive case

29. agreement between indefinite pronouns and their antecedents

30. subject verb agreement situations

31. types of sentences by purpose

32. the preposition

33. complete and simple predicates

34. The nominative case

35. the adverb clause

36. Confusing usage words part seven

37. Active and passive voices

38. Using Capital Letters

39. The verb be

40. subject and verb agreement

41. the direct object

42. the infinitive and infinitive phrase

43. Confusing usage words part three

44. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

45. The Semicolon

46. More subject verb agreement situations

47. regular verb tenses

48. the correlative conjunction

49. compound subject and compound predicate

50. reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns