Lesson 1: Irregular verbs

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Lesson 1: Irregular verbs

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In English we have a number of irregular verbs, the most useful and popular are…

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Short and easy verbs:

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⨠ cut -> cut -> cut

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⨠ put -> put -> put

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Chinese verbs:

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⨠ sing -> sang -> sung

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⨠ drink -> drank -> drunk

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To be and to do:

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⨠ be -> was/were -> been

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⨠ do -> did -> done

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Other useful verbs:

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⨠ tell -> told -> told

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⨠ write -> wrote -> written

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⨠ go -> went -> gone

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⨠ make -> made -> made

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⨠ take -> took -> taken

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There are hundreds of verbs like these mentioned before and you can find them in every even simple dictionary or coursebook.

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Verbs which are not irregular are called ‘regular verbs’ and to make the 2nd or 3rd form of them you just have an ending -ed to the basic verb.