Level: beginner
Most verbs have a past tense and past participle with –ed:
worked
played
listened
But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular:
| Base form | Past tense | Past participle |
|---|---|---|
| be | was/were | been |
| begin | began | begun |
| break | broke | broken |
| bring | brought | brought |
| buy | bought | bought |
| build | built | built |
| choose | chose | chosen |
| come | came | come |
| cost | cost | cost |
| cut | cut | cut |
| do | did | done |
| draw | drew | drawn |
| drive | drove | driven |
| eat | ate | eaten |
| feel | felt | felt |
| find | found | found |
| get | got | got |
| give | gave | given |
| go | went | gone |
| have | had | had |
| hear | heard | heard |
| hold | held | held |
| keep | kept | kept |
| know | knew | known |
| leave | left | left |
| lead | led | led |
| let | let | let |
| lie | lay | lain |
| lose | lost | lost |
| make | made | made |
| mean | meant | meant |
| meet | met | met |
| pay | paid | paid |
| put | put | put |
| run | ran | run |
| say | said | said |
| see | saw | seen |
| sell | sold | sold |
| send | sent | sent |
| set | set | set |
| sit | sat | sat |
| speak | spoke | spoken |
| spend | spent | spent |
| stand | stood | stood |
| take | took | taken |
| teach | taught | taught |
| tell | told | told |
| think | thought | thought |
| understand | understood | understood |
| wear | wore | worn |
| win | won | won |
| write | wrote | written |
- Irregular verbs
Comments
Sir what is past participle of twist
Hi Adreyan,
It's twisted. It's a regular verb :)
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
Dear professor, could you help me to analyze the word "gotten" what form do we use in ?
Past participle
Hi juliafer,
Gotten is a past participle of the verb get. You could say, for example:
There is another past participle of get – got. Using got is more common in British English and using gotten is more common in American English.
Best wishes,
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi,
Happy New Year. I would like to ask if the following are correct
1. Television and radio has a big part of the market.
Is this sentence correct?
Thank you in advance
Hi Nagie23,
Happy New Year to you too :)
Yes, it's correct!
There are two things here (Television and radio). So, we might consider the subject to be 'They', which needs the third person plural verb form: Television and radio have ...
But, if the speaker says Television and radio has ... , it shows that the speaker thinks of these things (Television and radio) as two parts of a single thing (e.g. broadcast media), which is an 'it' instead of a 'they'. So, the concept is slightly different.
Another example of this is: Fish and chips is delicious. We could say 'is' instead of 'are' to show that we are talking about the dish as an undivided whole.
Does that make sense?
Jonathan
The LearnEnglish Team
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Thanks
You're on one, they don't get much better than this.
This is really helpful. Thanks.
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