Saturday, 30 January 2016

WHAT IS IRREGULAR VERBS?



What is irregular verbs? I must say, it is the most difficult grammar item to teach to our kids. There is no 'cut-corner' techniques (read : 1,2 I Love You, 1, 2 IsAre etc!!) to teach this. Well, the real definition on irregular verbs is as follow.

In the English language verbs have different forms or tenses. There is the present tense, the simple past tense and past participle, to name a few. Most regular verbs have the simple past and the past participle spelled like the present tense except the past tenses have a “d” or “ed” added to the regular form.

However, with irregular verbs it’s a different story.

What are irregular verbs?

Irregular verbs are common verbs in the English language that do not follow the simple system of adding “d” or “ed” to the end of the word to form the past tense. That means the spellings can be a little tricky. Some irregular verbs follow patterns, such as drink–drank, spring–sprang, know-knew, and blow-blew but you can’t use those patterns with predictability. Unfortunately, learning irregular verbs means memorization.



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