Quick view of Regular and Irregular verbs

Quick view of Regular and Irregular verbs

VERB FORM

Problem

Although English verbs have only a few forms, it can still be difficult to remember which ending

to use in different grammatical situations, especially since some forms are used in more than

one pattern, and many verbs are irregular. 

 Solutions

 REVIEW THE BASIC PATTERNS and try to identify which form(s) give you the most

trouble so you can proofread for those.

	Simple Form	Present (-s,es) 3rd Person	Simple Past (-ed)	Present Participle (-ing)	Past Participle (-ed, -en)
Regular  talk	talk debate	talks debates	talked debated	talking debating	talked debated
Irregular	be go have write	is goes has writes	was/were went had wrote	being going having writing	been gone had written

Remember that the –ED ENDING on

Irregular Verbs list

Irregular Verbs

Invinitive  Simple Past Past Participle

alight alighted, alit alighted, alit

arise arose arisen

awake awoke, awaked awoken, awaked

be was, were been

bear bore borne, born

beat beat beaten, beat

become became become

beget begot begotten

begin began begun

bend bent bent

The Parts of Speech

Sentence 
When we speak or write we use words. we generally use these words in groups; as,
The girl wrote a letter to her boyfriend.
A group of words like this , which makes complete sense, is called a Sentence.
 Parts of Speech
words are divided into different kinds or classes, called parts of speech, according to their use; That is, according to the work they do in a sentence. The parts of speech are eight in number: 
Some grammar books categorize English into 9 or 10 parts of speech. At here we use the traditional categorization of 8 parts of speech:
1. Noun  2. Adjective 3. Pronoun 4.Verb
5. Adverb 6. Preposition 7. Conjunction  
8. Interjection

1.  NOUN

A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, idea, or quality.

Examples:  John, Mary, boy, girl, children; Pasadena, CEC;  classrooms, notebooks; freedom, intelligence; hope, anger, joy

2.  PRONOUN

A pronoun is usually a substitute for a noun. The noun is called the "antecedent" (but an indefinite pronoun has no antecedent).

Examples:

  a.  Personal pronouns:  I, mine, me; you, yours; he, his, him; she, hers, her; it, its; we, ours, us; they, theirs, them.

  b.  Interrogative pronouns:  who, whose, whom, which, what

  c.  Relative pronouns (include):  who, who, whose, which, that;  whoever, whomever, whichever

  d.  Demonstrative pronouns:  this, that, these, those

  e.  Indefinite pronouns (include):  all, another, any, anybody, anyone, anything, both, each, either, everybody, everyone, everything, many, neither, nobody, no one, none, one, others, some, somebody, someone, such