Regular and Irregular Verbs in detail.

1. VERBS
By
Ms. S. Sumitha

2. REGULAR
&
IRREGULAR
VERBS

3. PAST PARTICIPLE:
COMPOUND VERB

4. REGULAR VERBS:
Regular verbs are defined as having both their past
simple tense and past participle forms constructed by
adding the suffixes “-d” or “-ed” to the end of the word.
For most regular verbs, this in the only changes to
the word’s spelling.
Example: Here are some examples of common regular
verbs:

5. EXAMPLE SENTENCES:
1. I walk around the park each evening. (Base form)
2. I walked around the park in the afternoon. (Past simple tense)
3. I had walked around the park a few times this morning.(Past
participle)
4. I’m going to chop some vegetables for the salad.(Base form)
5. He chopped some vegetables for the salad before dinner.(Past
simple tense)
6. He had already chopped some vegetables for the salad. (Past
participle)
7. Don’t copy other students’ answers. (Base form)
8. I think he copied my answers. (Past simple tense)
9. The only answers he got right were the ones he had copied.
(Past participle)
10.Your father’s fine, doesn’t panic! (Base form)
11.I panicked when I heard he was in the hospital. (Past
simple tense)
12.I wish I hadn’t panicked like that.(Past participle)

6. IRREGULAR VERBS:
Irregular verbs, by their very definition, do not have
spelling rules that we can follow to create the past
simple tense and past participles.
This means that the only way of knowing how to spell
these forms is to memorize them for each irregular
verb individually.
Upcoming slides are just a few examples of some
common irregular verbs.