- A Regular Verb is one that forms its simple past tense and its past participle by adding “-ed” or “-d” to the base form of the verb.
- A regular verb is a verb that follows a common pattern of conjugation.
- A verb whose conjugation follows a different pattern is called an Irregular Verb.
- A regular verb is a verb that follows a predictable pattern when switching between tenses.
Base Form | Simple Past | Past Participle |
accept | accepted | accepted |
agree | agreed | agreed |
bake | baked | baked |
balance | balanced | balanced |
call | called | called |
catch | caught | caught |
come | came | come |
do | did | done |
dry | dried | dried |
eat |
ate |
eaten |
expect |
expected | expected |
fall |
fell |
fallen |
forget |
forgot |
forgotten |
give |
gave |
given |
go |
went |
gone |
hide |
hid |
hidden |
hand |
handed |
handed |
inform |
informed | informed |
invite |
invited |
invited |
jump |
jumped |
jumped |
join |
joined |
joined |
know |
knew |
known |
kill |
killed |
killed |
lie |
lied |
lied |
live |
lived |
lived |
make |
made |
made |
meet |
met |
met |
need |
needed |
needed |
note |
noted |
noted |
observe |
observed | observed |
own |
owned | owned |
play |
played | played |
pick | picked | picked |
question |
questioned | questioned |
quack |
quacked | quacked |
read |
read | read |
reduce |
reduced | reduced |
see |
saw | seen |
sell |
sold | sold |
tear |
tore | torn |
think |
thought | thought |
use |
used | used |
unite |
united | united |
visit |
visited | visited |
value |
valued | valued |
wear |
wore | worn |
weep |
wept | wept |
yawn |
yawned | yawned |
yell | yelled | yelled |
also see:
ONLINE GRAMMAR QUIZZES with CERTIFICATES |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR_1 |
ENGLISH GRAMMAR_2 |
GRAMMAR: SPOT THE ERROR |
USEFUL EXPRESSIONS IN ENGLISH SPEAKING |
WORD FORMATION PROCESSES |
PHONETICS |