Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the regular pattern when forming the past tense and past participle in English. Regular verbs typically add “-ed” to the base form of the verb to form the past tense and past participle, but irregular verbs have their own unique forms for these tenses. Some examples of irregular verbs include “go” (went, gone), “eat” (ate, eaten), and “write” (wrote, written). It is important to memorize irregular verbs because they do not follow the typical pattern, and their forms must be learned individually.
Type of Verbs, definition and examples
List of irregular verbs
- be (am, is, are, was, were, been)
- have (have, has, had)
- do (do, does, did)
- go (go, went, gone)
- eat (eat, ate, eaten)
- run (run, ran, run)
- swim (swim, swam, swum)
- speak (speak, spoke, spoken)
- see (see, saw, seen)
- write (write, wrote, written)
- take (take, took, taken)
- give (give, gave, given)
- come (come, came, come)
- get (get, got, gotten)
- know (know, knew, known)
- think (think, thought, thought)
- feel (feel, felt, felt)
- drive (drive, drove, driven)
- break (break, broke, broken)
- choose (choose, chose, chosen)
- bring (bring, brought, brought)
- buy (buy, bought, bought)
- catch (catch, caught, caught)
- choose (choose, chose, chosen)
- do (do, did, done)
- draw (draw, drew, drawn)
- drink (drink, drank, drunk)
- drive (drive, drove, driven)
- eat (eat, ate, eaten)
- fall (fall, fell, fallen)
- fly (fly, flew, flown)
- forget (forget, forgot, forgotten)
- get (get, got, gotten)
- give (give, gave, given)
- go (go, went, gone)
- grow (grow, grew, grown)
- have (have, had, had)
- hear (hear, heard, heard)
- know (know, knew, known)
- leave (leave, left, left)
- lend (lend, lent, lent)
- let (let, let, let)
- lose (lose, lost, lost)
- make (make, made, made)
- meet (meet, met, met)
- pay (pay, paid, paid)
- put (put, put, put)
- read (read, read, read)
- ride (ride, rode, ridden)
- ring (ring, rang, rung)
- run (run, ran, run)
- say (say, said, said)
- see (see, saw, seen)
- sell (sell, sold, sold)
- send (send, sent, sent)
- show (show, showed, shown)
- sing (sing, sang, sung)
- sit (sit, sat, sat)
- sleep (sleep, slept, slept)
- speak (speak, spoke, spoken)
- stand (stand, stood, stood)
- swim (swim, swam, swum)
- take (take, took, taken)
- teach (teach, taught, taught)
- tell (tell, told, told)
- think (think, thought, thought)
- throw (throw, threw, thrown)
- understand (understand, understood, understood)
- wake (wake, woke, woken)
- wear (wear, wore, worn)
- win (win, won, won)
- write (write, wrote, written)
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