The most important thing in learning grammar is knowing the verbs. You are lucky if you can learn them without efforts But what should others do?

LEARNING THE VERBS

The most important thing in learning grammar is knowing the verbs. You are lucky if you can learn them without efforts... But what should others do?

Well, look at the following tables. We hope they will help you to solve the problem. The irregular verbs we use more often are divided into the groups according to the rules they are formed by.

The verbs with the same forms and same

pronunciation except READ

bet	bet	bet
broadcast	broadcast	broadcast
burst	burst	burst
cast	cast	cast
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
forecast	forecast	forecast
hit	hit	hit
hurt	hurt	hurt
knit	knit	knit
let	let	let
put	put	put
read	read	read
rid	rid	rid
set	set	set
shut	shut	shut
slit	slit	slit
split	split	split
spread	spread	spread
upset	upset	upset
wet	wet	wet
The verbs where letter I is changed into A and then into U
begin	began	begun
drink	drank	drunk
ring	rang	rung
sing	sang	sung
sink	sank	sunk
stink	stank	stunk
swim	swam	swum
The verbs where letters 0 and А are changed into E and in the third form you add N to the first form
blow	blew	blown
draw	drew	drawn
fly	flew	flown
grow	grew	grown
know	knew	known
throw	threw	thrown

The verbs with EE are taken one E away and added T if the last letter of the verb isn't D or T

bleed

bled

bled

breed

bred

bred

feed

fed

fed

flee

fled

fled

speed

sped

sped

meet

met

met

creep

crept

crept

feel

felt

felt

keep

kept

kept

kneel

knelt

knelt

sleep

slept

slept

sweep

swept

swept

weep

wept

wept

The verbs are added T in the end

burn

burnt

burnt

deal

dealt

dealt

dwell

dwelt

dwelt

learn

learnt

learnt

mean

meant

meant

smell

smelt

smelt

spell

spelt

spelt

spoil

spoilt

spoilt

The verbs are formed with OUGHT/ AUGHT

bring

brought

brought

buy

bought

bought

catch

caught

caught

fight

fought

fought

seek

sought

sought

teach

taught

taught

think

thought

thought

The verbs where the second form is changed only

become

became

become

come

came

come

run

ran

run

The verbs where letter Yis changed into ID

lay

laid

laid

pay

paid

paid

say

said

said

Where the second and the third forms are the same

bind	bound	bound
dig	dug	dug
find	found	found
get	got	got
hang	hung	hung
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hold	held	held
lead	led	led
leave	left	left
light	lit	lit
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
retell	retold	retold
sell	sold	sold
shine	shone	shone
shoot	shot	shot
sit	sat	sat
slide	slid	slid
stand	stood	stood
sting	stung	stung
strike	struck	struck
tell	told	told
understand	understood	understood
win	won	won
wind	wound	wound
The verbs where the letter D is changed into Tin the end
bend	bent	bent
build	built	built
lend	lent	lent
rend	rent	rent
send	sent	sent
spend	spent	spent
The verbs in the second form are formed with the letter 0 and added N in the third form
awake	awoke	awoken
break	broke	broken
choose	chose	chosen
forget	forgot	forgotten
freeze	froze	frozen
speak	spoke	spoken
steal	stole	stolen
wake	woke	woken
arise	arose	arisen
drive	drove	driven
rise	rose	risen

The verbs where the second form is changed and the third is formed with EN added to the first form

eat

ate

eaten

forgive

forgave

forgiven

give

gave

given

mistake

mistook

mistaken

shake

shook

shaken

take

took

taken

The verbs where the second form is changed and the third is formed with EN added to the first form. The last consonant is doubled

bite	bit	bitten
forbid	forbade	forbidden
hide	hid	hidden
ride	rode	ridden
write	wrote	written
The verbs where EAR is changed into ORE in the second form and ORN(E) in the third one
bear	bore	born(e)
swear	swore	sworn
tear	tore	torn
wear	wore	worn
These verbs are easy to memorise without any explanations
do	did	done
go	went	gone
be	was/ were	been
see	saw	seen

It will take you 5 minutes to learn one table and it won't be so difficult as it was before. Of course the list of the irregular verbs is longer, but you can add other verbs into these tables or make your own ones.

Good luck!

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