Irregular Verbs

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Irregular Verbs

• Verbs in which the past tense is formed by
  changing the present form.

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Examples

• Present Past Past Participle
• begin began (have) begun
• eat ate (have) eaten
• speak spoke (have) spoken

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Sentences

• She ________ (past of go) to the mall to buy some
  neat clothes.
• Once, the temperature __________ (past of fall)
  way below zero.

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Review

• Present Things that are happening right now.
• Example He is sitting on the chair.
• Past Something already happened.
• Example Joe jumped over the cat
• Future Something will happen.
• Example Shane will go to the store tonight.

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Past Participle

• Verbs that use a helping verb. The helping verb
  determines the tense of the verb.
• was called (past) will be called (future)

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Linking Verbs

• The most popular linking verbs are as follows
• am is are was were be being been
• Senses smell sound feel look taste

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Action Verbs

• Verbs that show some type of action. There is a
  good chance that the action verb will end in ed.
  Think of the time when we played the charades. We
  were able to see the action.

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Helping verbs

• These verbs help out the main verb. There may be
  a group of them or just one.
• Helping Verb Main Verb
• is making
• has been singing

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Main Verb

• The last word in a group of verbs is the main
  verb.