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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. what good writers do
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7. the indirect object
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8. The possessive case
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9. the direct object
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10. the adverb
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11. The verb be
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12. the adjective clause
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13. the appositive
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14. Sound a like words Part Two
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15. The Colon
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16. the pronoun
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17. The Apostrophe
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18. complete and simple subjects
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19. Commas Part Four
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20. Second Capitalization List
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21. personal pronouns
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22. Confusing usage words part three
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23. Commas Part Three
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24. Quotation Marks Part Two
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25. complex sentences
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26. types of nouns
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27. the noun clause
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28. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks
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29. Confusing usage words part one
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30. Confusing usage words part four
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31. Confusing usage words part six
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32. Transitive and intransitive verbs
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33. the correlative conjunction
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34. subject complements predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives
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35. More Apostrophe Situations
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36. introducing clauses
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37. the adverb clause
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38. Confusing usage words part three
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39. complete and simple predicates
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40. Confusing usage words part two
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41. Sound alike words part one
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42. Commas Part Five
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43. The nominative case
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44. Sound a like words Part Four
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45. Commas Part One
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46. Quotation Marks Part One
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47. the verb
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48. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case
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49. agreement involving prepositional phrases
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50. pronouns and their antecedents
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