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Regular Verbs

There are about 60,000 to 100,000 verbs in English, and new ones are created all the time, especially with the use of technology, slang, and other cultural developments. 99.9% of these verbs are regular, following a “regular pattern” by adding d or ed to the basic verb form. Examples:

Set 1 – Regular Verbs

• Play – Played – Played
• Walk – Walked – Walked
• Talk – Talked – Talked
• Clean – Cleaned – Cleaned
• Cook – Cooked – Cooked
• Jump – Jumped – Jumped
• Open – Opened – Opened
• Close – Closed – Closed
• Visit – Visited – Visited
• Watch – Watched – Watched

However, around 200 of the verbs do not follow the d / ed pattern. They are unpredictable. Learn the following irregular verbs and win a reward. 

Irregular Verbs

Set 2: ABA – First and last the same.

• Become – became – become
• Come – came – come
• Overcome – overcame – overcome

Set 3 – ABC All three forms are different.

• Arise – arose – arisen
• Awake – awoke – awoken
• Beat – beat – beaten
• Begin – began – begun
• Blow – blew – blown
• Break – broke – broken
• Choose – chose – chosen
• Bite – bit – bitten
• Do – did – done
• Draw – drew – drawn
• Drink – drank – drunk
• Drive – drove – driven
• Eat – ate – eaten
• Fall – fell – fallen
• Fly – flew – flown
• Forget – forgot – forgotten
• Forgive – forgave – forgiven
• Freeze – froze – frozen
• Give – gave – given
• Go – went – gone
• Grow – grew – grown
• Hide – hid – hidden
• Know – knew – known
• Lie – lay – lain
• Overtake – overtook – overtaken
• Ride – rode – ridden
• Ring – rang – rung
• Rise – rose – risen
• See – saw – seen
• Shake – shook – shaken
• Show – showed – shown
• Shrink – shrank – shrunk
• Sing – sang – sung
• Sink – sank – sunk
• Speak – spoke – spoken
• Spring – sprang – sprung
• Swear – swore – sworn
• Swim – swam – swum
• Take – took – taken
• Tear – tore – torn
• Throw – threw – thrown
• Wake – woke – woken 
• Wear – wore – worn 
• Write – wrote – written

Set 4: AAA – All three forms are same:

• Bet – bet – bet
• Bid – bid – bid
• Broadcast – broadcast – broadcast
• Cost – cost – cost
• Cut – cut – cut
• Hit – hit – hit
• Let – let – let
• Put – put – put
• Quit – quit – quit
• Set – set – set
• Shut – shut – shut
• Split – split – split
• Spread – spread – spread
• Hurt – hurt – hurt

Set 5: ABB – Second and third the same:

• Bend – bent – bent
• Bleed – bled – bled
• Bring – brought – brought
• Build – built – built
• Buy – bought – bought
• Catch – caught – caught
• Cling – clung – clung
• Creep – crept – crept
• Deal – dealt – dealt
• Feed – fed – fed
• Feel – felt – felt
• Fight – fought – fought
• Find – found – found
• Flee – fled – fled
• Light – lit – lit
• Lose – lost – lost
• Make – made – made
• Mean – meant – meant
• Meet – met – met
• Pay – paid – paid
• Read – read – read (pronounced “red”)
• Say – said – said
• Sell – sold – sold
• Send – sent – sent
• Shine – shone – shone
• Shoot – shot – shot
• Sit – sat – sat
• Sleep – slept – slept
• Slide – slid – slid
• Spend – spent – spent
• Stand – stood – stood
• Steal – stole – stolen
• Stick – stuck – stuck
• Strike – struck – struck
• Sweep – swept – swept
• Teach – taught – taught
• Tell – told – told
• Think – thought – thought
• Understand – understood – understood
• Weep – wept – wept
• Win – won – won
• Wind – wound – wound
• Have – had – had
• Hear – heard – heard
• Grind – ground – ground
• Hold – held – held
• Keep – kept – kept
• Lay – laid – laid
• Lead – led – led
• Leave – left – left
• Spin – spun – spun
• Lend – lent – lent
• Leap – leapt – leapt
• Run – ran – run

Set 6: AB/CB/C Mixed Forms

• Be – was/were – been
• Bear – bore – borne/born
• Dream – dreamed/dreamt – dreamed/dreamt
• Get – got – gotten/got
• Kneel – knelt/kneeled – knelt/kneeled
• Learn – learned/learnt – learned/learnt
• Melt – melted – melted/molten
• Hang – hung / hanged – hung / hanged
• Spill – spilled/spilt – spilled/spilt