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"At first glance irregular verbs would seem to have no reason to live. Why should language have forms that are just cussed exceptions to a rule? . . .
"Irregular forms are just words. If our language faculty has a knack for memorizing words, it should have no inhibitions about memorizing past-tense forms at the same time. These are the verbs we call irregular, and they are a mere 180 additions to a mental lexicon that already numbers in the tens or hundreds of thousands."
(Steven Pinker, Words and Rules. Basic, 1999)
"A boy who swims may say he swum,
But milk is skimmed and seldom skum,
And nails you trim; they are not trum.
"When words you speak, these words are spoken,
But a nose is tweaked and can't be twoken.
And what you seek is seldom soken.
"If we forget, then we've forgotten,
But things we wet are never wotten,
And houses let cannot be lotten.
"The things one sells are always sold,
But fog dispelled are not dispold,
And what you smell is never smold.
"When young, a top you oft saw spun,
But did you see a grin ever grun,
Or a potato neatly skun?"
(anonymous, "Verbs Is Funny")
Pronunciation: i-REG-u-lur verb
Also Known As: strong verbs
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Awake, awoke, awoken.
Arise, arose, arising, arisen.
Be, was, were, being, been.
Bear, bore, bearing, borne.
Begin, began, beginning, begun.
Bend, bent, bent.
Blow, blew, blow.
Break, broke, breaking, broken.
Bring, brought, bringing
Build, built
Buy, bought, buying
Catch, caught
Choose, chose, choosing, chosen.
Come, came, coming
Cost, cost, costing
Cut, cut, cutting
Do, did, doing, done.
Draw, drew, drawing, drawn.
Drink, drank, drinking, drunk.
Drive, drove, driving, driven.
Eat, ate, eating, eaten.
Fall, fell, falling, fallen.
Feel, felt, feeling
Fight, fought, fighting
Find, found, finding
Fly, flew, flying, flown.
Forget, forgot, forgotten.
Forgive, forgave, forgiven.
Get, got, getting, gotten.
Give, gave, giving, given.
Go, went, going, gone.
Grow, grew, growing, grown.
Have, had, having
Hear, heard, hearing
Hide, hid, hiding, hidden
Hold, held
Hit, hit, hitting
Hold, held, holding
Keep, kept, keeping
Know, knew, knowing, known.
Lay, laid
Lead, led
Leave, left, leaving
Lend, lent, lending
Let, let, letting
Lie, lay, lying, lain.
Lose, lost, losing
Make, made, making
Mean, meant
Meet, met, meeting
Pay, paid
Put, putting
Read, reading
Rend, rent, rending
Ride, rode, riding, ridden.
Ring, rung or rang, ringing, rung.
Rise, rose, rising, risen.
Run, ran, running, run.
Say, said, saying
See, saw, seeing, seen.
Seek, sought, seeking
Sell, sold, selling
Send, sent, sending
Set, set, setting
Shake, shook
Shine, shone
Shoot, shot, shooting
Show, showed, shown.
Sing, sang, singing, sung.
Sit, sat, sitting
Sleep, slept
Speak, spoke, speaking, spoken.
Spend, spent, spending
Stand, stood, standing
Steal, stole, stealing, stolen.
Strike, struck, striking
Swim, swam, swimming, swum.
Take, took, taking, taken.
Teach, taught, teaching
Tear, tore, tearing, torn.
Tell, told, telling
Think, thought, thinking
Throw, threw, thrown.
Wake, woke, woken.
Wear, wore, wearing, worn.
Win, won, winning
Write, wrote, writing, written.
List of Irregular Verbs
Examples Help - Understanding the Different Irregular Verbs!
Understanding the different types of Irregular verbs is a basic requirement of the English language. I hope the above information and list of irregular verbs will be of some assistance.
Clonge
