Irregular past tense: review

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Definition of Irregular Verbs

• Irregular Verbs are verbs that do not follow the regular pattern of adding -ed to form their past tense.

Regular vs. Irregular Verbs

• Regular Verbs: Follow a consistent pattern (e.g., walk → walked, jump → jumped).
• Irregular Verbs: Do not follow the standard pattern (e.g., go → went, eat → ate).

Common Irregular Verbs and Their Past Tense Forms

• Be: am/is/are → was/were
• Begin: begin → began
• Come: come → came
• Do: do/does → did
• Go: go → went
• Have: have/has → had
• See: see → saw
• Take: take → took

Using Irregular Verbs in Sentences

• Present Tense: I go to school every day.
• Past Tense: I went to school yesterday.

Recognizing Patterns

• Although irregular verbs don’t follow a single pattern, some groups of irregular verbs have similar changes (e.g., “sing” → “sang” and “ring” → “rang”).

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