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Grammar. Regular and irregular verbs

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An English verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding –ed.

Examples are given below.

Walk – walked – walked

Dance – danced – danced

Paint – painted – painted

Work – worked – worked


Irregular verbs form their past and past participle forms in different ways.

There are mainly three types of irregular verbs.

  • Verbs in which all the three forms are the same (e.g. put – put – put)
  • Verbs in which two of the three forms are the same (e.g. sit – sat – sat)
  • Verbs in which all three forms are different (e.g. drink – drank – drunk)


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Some verbs can be both regular and irregular. Examples are:

Burn – burnt – burnt (irregular)

Burn – burned – burned (regular)


Dream – dreamt – dreamt (irregular)

Dream – dreamed – dreamed (regular)


Lean – lent – lent (irregular)

Lean – leaned – leaned (regular)


Learn – learnt – learnt (irregular)

Learn – learned – learned (regular)


Leap – leapt – leapt (irregular)

Leap – leaped – leaped (regular)


Smell – smelt – smelt (irregular)

Smell – smelled – smelled (regular)


Spill – spilt – spilt (irregular)

Spill – spilled – spilled (regular)


Spoil – spoilt – spoilt (irregular)

Spoil – spoiled – spoiled (regular)

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