We can define regular verb as “Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding ‘-d’ or ‘-ed’ to the end of the verb”.
Explanation
Regular verbs are those verbs that forms their past tense and past participles by adding ‘-d’ or ‘-ed’ to the end of the verb. Most of the English verbs become regular verbs. Such as:
In some words, the last consonant become double before adding the ‘-ed’ at the end. Such as:
Regular verbs are conjugated words in a traditional form. Such as: ‘cook’ is a regular verb as it’s past tense is ‘cooked’; however, we cannot say ‘write’ a regular verb because it’s past tense is not ‘writed’. It would be ‘wrote’, thus ‘write’ is an irregular verb.
Following are some of the regular verbs:
Advise, afford, agree, brush, bounce, bubble, bump, answer, attach, attack, attempt, attend, bake, chase, collect, color, cheat, check, balance, ban, apologize, earn, educate, arrange, invite, irritate, arrest, cross, crush, extend, increase, influence, connect, consider, improve, include, excuse, interrupt, introduce, exercise, etc.
Following are some examples showing the use of regular verbs in the sentence:
Regular verb exercises given below will help you in analyzing your knowledge about regular verb. Just go through all the details given above about the regular verb and check your skill by doing following exercises for regular verb. We have used regular verbs in the following sentences; you need to check your skill by identifying regular verbs in each sentence:
Answers: 1 – advised, 2 – afford, 3 – agree, 4 – brush, 5 – answered, 6 – answered, 7 – attached, 8 – attack, 9 – attempted, 10 – attend, 11 – collected, 12 – color, 13 – cheated, 14 – check, 15 – balance, 16 – apologize, 17 – earn, 18 – educated, 19 – arrange, 20 – invited, 21 – irritate, 22 – arrested, 23 – cross, 24 – extended, 25 – increased, 26 – influenced, 27 – connected, 28 – exercise
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