From the course: Grammar Foundations
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Types of verbs: Regular and irregular
From the course: Grammar Foundations
Types of verbs: Regular and irregular
- [Narrator] Next, we'll talk about regular and irregular verbs. Regular verbs follow a pattern. You make them past tense by adding D or E-D. Brew becomes brood and poor becomes poured, for example. Irregular verbs don't follow that pattern, instead, they have an entirely different spelling for the past tense. Our linking verb to be is an irregular verb, it doesn't become bead in the past tense, it becomes was and were. English has fewer than 200 irregular verbs, but there's some of the most common verbs you see. See, swim and go are all irregular verbs, for example. You just have to memorize the irregular verbs, but they matter because people often get confused about the forms you see in the second and third column here. You may hear people say, "I seen the menu," or "I have went to the store," but the correct forms are, "I saw the menu," or "I have seen the menu" and "I went to the store" or "I have gone to the…
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