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
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
Hi,
In previous lesson exercises, I'm not sure if the listed answers are correct.
1. In November, we’ll have been living in this house for ten years.
Now verb phrase listed as the answer is "will have been", I think it should be "will have been living" if I'm wrong then please explain why 'living' is not considered part of the main verb.
2. Lorena must’ve been really happy to see her sister again after all this time.
In answer 'been' is listed as the Modal verb, I guess this is a mistake, the modal verb is 'must'. isn't it?
Regards
Hi SajadKhan,
We'd like to check your examples but we're not sure which pages they come from. Could you please post the comment on the relevant page and let us know which exercise the examples come from, or else post a link to the page? Then we'll be able to check and correct any errors we find.
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Hi Peter,
These are from https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verb-phrases-...
Regards
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