Irregular verb is the verb that does not follow the standard ending of -ed or -ied when forming the Past or the Past Participle.
Example Verb: Go
Go is an irregular verb and one of the most common in the English language. In the Past form it transforms to went and in the Past Participle to Gone.
Go – Went – Gone
Go – The first word is the infinitive or the bare form of the verb
Went – The second word is the past form of the verb
Gone – The third is the past participle of the verb
There are four different categories of Irregular verbs.
For instance:
Cost | Cost | Cost |
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Cut | Cut | Cut | |
Let | Let | Let | |
Put | Put | Put | |
Read | *Read | *Read | *pronounced /red/ |
Hit | Hit | Hit | |
Hurt | Hurt | Hurt |
Examples:
Become | Became | Become |
Come | Came | Come |
Run | Ran | Run |
For example:
Build | Built | Built |
Have | Had | Had |
Find | Found | Found |
Think | Thought | Thought |
Make | Made | Made |
Get | Got | Got* |
* The Past Participle of Get in British English is Got, in American English is Gotten.
For example:
Do | Did | Done |
Go | Went | Gone |
Fly | Flew | Flown |
Infinitive | Past Form | Past Participle |
Go | Went | Gone |
Be | Was/Were | Been |
Get | Got | Got/Gotten |
Say | Said | Said |
See | Saw | Seen |
Think | Thought | Thought |
Make | Made | Made |
Take | Took | Taken |
Come | Came | Come |
Know | Knew | Known |
