We can define irregular verbs as “Irregular verbs are those verbs that do not add ‘-d’ or ‘-ed’ at the end like regular verbs”. The past simple and past participle forms of most of the irregular verbs become same such as fed, cut, put, had, hurt, bet, bid, shut, sold, let, etc.
Explanation
Irregular verbs are generally known as strong verbs. Most commonly used irregular verbs in the English language are can, go, get, be, say, do, draw, see, think, buy, bear, drink, eat, make, take, become, come, know, etc. Both regular and irregular verbs have five forms that are infinitive, simple present, simple past, past participle, and present participle. Both vary in the formation of simple past and past participle.
Following is the list of irregular verbs:
Arise, be, give, bring, lay, set, bear, lose, come, go, know, begin, buy, bite, creep, catch, choose, blow, break, swim, dive, do, drag, run, seek, see, lead, hide, draw, drive, lie, get, dream, light, drink, eat, fall, steal, tear, fight, strike, throw, swear, spring, fly, forget, forgive, freeze, grow, hang, prove, ride, ring, rise, shake, sing, sink, sit, speak, sting, swing, take, wake, wear, write, etc.
Types of Irregular Verb
Generally, there are three types of irregular verbs, such as:
Following are examples showing the use of irregular verbs in the sentences:
Irregular verb exercises given below will help you in analyzing your knowledge about irregular verb. Just go through all the details given above about the irregular verb and check your skill by doing following exercises for irregular verb. We have used irregular verbs in the following sentences; you need to check your skill by identifying irregular verbs in each sentence:
Answers: 1 – swam, won, 2 – saw, got, 3 – spend, 4 – took, 5 – bought, ate, 6 – went, 7 – left, 8 – go, 9 – throw, 10 – get, 11 – burst, gets, 12 – stuck
Related Information:
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Subject-Verb Agreement
Modal Auxiliary Verbs
Intransitive Verbs
Transitive Verbs
Nonfinite Verb
Finite Verb
Stative Verb
Dynamic Verb
Auxiliary Verb
Lexical Verb