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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 indirect object

6. what good writers do

7. the adjective clause

8. the adverb

9. personal pronouns

10. Quotation Marks Part Two

11. Sound a like words Part Two

12. Commas Part Three

13. The Apostrophe

14. the prepositional phrase

15. Confusing usage words part two

16. Second Capitalization List

17. the direct object

18. sentences fragments and run on sentences

19. The Colon

20. complex sentences

21. The coordinating conjunction

22. the adverb clause

23. Transitive and intransitive verbs

24. Commas Part Five

25. singular and plural nouns and pronouns

26. irregular verbs part two

27. Confusing usage words part three

28. Sound a like words Part Four

29. Periods Question Marks and Exclamation Marks

30. complete and simple subjects

31. the pronoun

32. Indefinite pronouns and the possessive case

33. Confusing usage words part seven

34. the object of the preposition

35. types of nouns

36. Confusing usage words part one

37. Sound alike words part one

38. Commas Part One

39. Parentheses Ellipsis Marks and Dashes

40. The possessive case

41. the interjection

42. complete and simple predicates

43. compound subject and compound predicate

44. reflexive demonstrative and interrogative pronouns

45. the noun adjective pronoun question

46. Confusing usage words part eight

47. irregular verbs part one

48. agreement involving prepositional phrases

49. the noun

50. the adjective