English forms of verbs. Regular Verbs. The value of the knowledge gained

Here you can find a table of irregular English verbs with translation into Russian and transcription, a video on learning and memorizing irregular verbs, links.

In English, there is a special category of verbs that does not obey generally accepted rules for forming the past participle. It is customary to call them “wrong”. Unlike "regular" verbs, which are appended with the -ed ending to form the past participle, these verbs either remain unchanged or take on unusual forms that are not always easy to remember. For example:

put - put - put;
drive - drove - driven.

While the first verb is easy to learn and use in sentences, the second has to be learned directly by memorization.

Where did such difficulties with some verbs come from? Scientists have come to the conclusion that these are a kind of "fossils" that have remained in the language since ancient times. During its development, the English language adopted a large number of words from other European languages, but some words remained unchanged. It is to this category that irregular verbs belong.

Irregular English Verb Table:

Videos for learning and memorizing irregular English verbs:

Top 100 English Irregular Verbs.

In this video, the author analyzes the most popular irregular verbs in English (top 100, compiled by himself). Examples are given for all irregular verbs, voice acting, etc. The most used irregular verbs come first, then the less used ones.

Pronunciation of irregular English verbs.

British English Irregular Verbs. The author makes it possible to repeat after him and thus hone the correct pronunciation of irregular verbs.

Learn irregular English verbs with rap.

An interesting video for memorizing the irregular verbs of the English language superimposed on rap.

Examples of the use of irregular verbs:

English is a language of exceptions, where, when learning a new grammar rule, students are faced with a dozen but, in which this rule does not apply. One of these rules is the use of irregular verbs in the past tense. For many English learners, this topic is a nightmare. But you can't do without them, because these are the realities of English! However, the good news is that modern English is gradually getting rid of irregular verbs, replacing them with regular ones. Why and how - we will consider in the article.

Why are English verbs irregular?

Difficulty in using irregular verbs is experienced not only by foreigners, but also by the speakers themselves. Nevertheless, for English philologists, the non-standard nature of this part of speech is not a disadvantage, but a reason for pride. They believe that irregular verbs are a cultural monument that perpetuates the history of the English language. The explanation for this fact is the Germanic roots of the origin of irregular verbs, which makes British English a traditional variant of the language. For comparison, the Americans are trying with might and main to get rid of the irregular shape, remaking it into the correct one. Therefore, the list of non-standard verbs increases for those who learn both versions of the language. Thus, the wrong version is ancient, which is reflected in prose and poetry.

How many forms does a verb have in English?

Speaking about verbs in English, it should be noted that they have 3 forms:

• infinitive, it is;
• I, or Participle I, - this form is used in the simple past tense (Past Simple) and in the 2nd and 3rd cases of the conditional mood (Conditional of the 2-d and of the 3-d case);
• Past Participle II, or Participle II, for Past Perfect, Passive Voice and Conditional of the 3-d case.

The table "Three in English" is presented later in the article.

What are regular and irregular verbs? Education rules

Regular verbs are those in which the Past Simple and Participle II forms are formed by adding the ending -ed to the initial form. The table "Three forms of a verb in English. Regular verbs" will help you better understand this rule.

There are some peculiarities in the formation of the Participle I and Participle II forms:

• if the verb ends with the letter -e, then adding -ed does not double it;
• the consonant in monosyllabic verbs is duplicated when added. Example: stop - stopped;
• if the verb ends in -y with a preceding consonant, then y changes to i before adding -ed.

Irregular verbs are called verbs that do not obey the general rule for the formation of temporary forms. In English, these include Past Simple and Participle II.

Irregular verbs are formed using:

ablaut, at which the root changes. Example: swim - swam - swum (swim - swam - swam);

use of suffixes other than those accepted in the grammar of the language. Example: do - did - done;

the same, or unchangeable form. Example: cut - cut - cut.

Due to the fact that each irregular verb has its own form of change, they should be learned by heart.

In total, there are 218 irregular verbs in English, of which approximately 195 are in active use.

Recent studies in the field of language show that rare verbs are gradually disappearing from the language due to the replacement of the 2nd and 3rd forms with the forms of the regular verb, that is, the addition of the ending - ed. This fact is confirmed by the table "Three forms of the verb in English" - the table presents a number of verbs that have both regular and irregular forms.

table of irregular verbs

The table "Three forms of irregular verbs in English" includes the most frequently used verbs. The table shows 3 forms and translation.

Irregular verbs came to modern English from Old English, which was spoken by Angles and Saxons - British tribes.

Irregular verbs are derived from the so-called strong verbs, each of which had its own type of conjugation.

Researchers at Harvard have found that most of the verbs used are irregular, and they will remain so, as they are used more often than others.

In the history of the English language, there is also such a phenomenon when a regular verb became irregular. For example, sneak has 2 forms - sneaked and snuck.

Not only English learners have problems with verbs, but also native speakers, as even they get into awkward situations when it comes to this difficult part of speech.

One of them is Jennifer Garner, who has been convinced all her life that sneak is the correct verb.

She was corrected by the host of one of the programs in which the actress took part. Dictionary in hand, he pointed out to Jennifer her mistake.

Therefore, do not be upset if you make mistakes when using irregular verbs. The main thing is that they do not become systematic.

Regular verbs

The table "Three forms of regular verbs in English with transcription and translation" is based on the most frequently used verbs.

Examples of the use of 3 forms of verbs with translation

Above, we looked at 3 forms of verbs in English. A table with examples of use and translation will help solidify the topic.

Here, for each grammatical construction, two examples are given - one with regular verbs, the other with irregular verbs.

Exercises

For a better memorization of irregular verbs, you need to not only learn and repeat them by heart, but also perform various exercises.

Exercise 1. Here is a table "Three forms of a verb in English. Irregular verbs". Fill in one of the three missing forms.

Exercise 2. Here is a table "Three forms of a verb in English. Regular verbs". Insert forms Participle I and II.

Exercise 3. Using the tables, translate the following sentences into English.

1. I was reading a book.
2. We saw them yesterday.
3. The Smiths lived in London until 2000. They then moved to Manchester.
4. Alice was a university student in 2014.
5. They worked for the same company two years ago.
6. He just finished training.
7. When we were children, my mother often took us to this park.
8. I drove a toy car as a child.

Answers to exercises

Exercise 1.

Exercise 2.

asked, borrowed, closed, decided, explained, helped, started, travelled, used, worked.

Exercise 3.

1. I read a book.
2. We saw them yesterday.
3. The Smiths lived in London till 2000. Then they moved to Manchester.
4. Alice was a student of Univercity in 2014.
5. They worked in the same company two years ago.
6. He has just finished training.
7. When we were children we were took for a walk to this park.
8. I drove a toy car in my childhood.

Get in the habit of repeating the basic forms of the English verb periodically. Using an irregular verb table, doing the exercises and repeating regularly will help you cope with the difficulties of the English language faster.

Today I want to offer a list of fifty of the most common and widely used regular verbs in the English language. This collection is perfect for beginners. With these verbs, you can build simple everyday phrases that are used in everyday speech.

I will also give some grammatical rules in the tables related to this type of verbs.

What are regular verbs and irregular verbs

In English, there are two categories of verbs - regular and irregular. The division into these categories is based on the method of forming the form of the simple past tense - Past Simple, and the past participle - Past Participle.

Regular verbs in English, these are the verbs that form the above forms according to the general rule.

And it is the following - the form Past Simple and Past Participle of regular verbs is formed by attaching the ending –ed to the stem of the verb (to the infinitive). For example, the verb ask. We add –ed to it and get - asked, this will be the form of the past tense and the participle of the past tense. They are formed in the same way.

The above forms are not formed according to the general rule. You just need to memorize their forms. For example, the verb begin - begin, has the form began in Past Simple, and begun in Past Participle.

Features of the formation of the Past Simple and Past Participle forms of regular verbs

But there are several grammatical nuances in the formation of forms with the addition of -ed.

I will put them in a table for convenience:

In all other cases, the -ed ending is attached to the verb without any peculiarities.

Peculiarities of reading the ending -ed

Again, I will present it in the form of a table:

Selection - 50 regular English verbs with translation

Here are 50 of the most common regular verbs that beginners should know. I will not write forms with –ed, just you can practice according to the rules described above:

We have already met with various classifications of English verbs, and the division into regular and irregular is one of the most important. Today we will look at the regular verbs of the English language, figure out how forms of different tenses are formed, and study their main features.

Distinctive features

Regular verbs in English (regular verbs) are those in which form 2 (past tense) and Participle 2 are formed according to the general rule - the ending -ed is added to the base. They make up the main layer of English verbs and are quite convenient to use, because do not require memorizing the three forms. All that is required of us is to remember and learn to distinguish regular verbs from irregular ones and do not forget to apply the rule described above.

Pronunciation rules for ending -ed

An important point to pay attention and time is the peculiarities of pronunciation and spelling of verbs with the ending –ed. As with the rest of the reading and pronunciation rules in English, there are options to remember:

• after consonants with voiceless pronunciation, the ending -ed is pronounced [t];
• after vowels and consonants with voiced pronunciation, it is pronounced [d];
• only after the sounds [t] and [d] is it pronounced

With the help of the table below with examples, you can thoroughly understand this issue.

Spelling features

• The dumb "e" at the end is discarded when adding an ending:
  to arrive - arrived
• If a word ends with one consonant followed by a short vowel, the last letter is doubled:
  to drop - dropped
• The last letter is also doubled if it appears in a polysyllabic word after the stressed syllable:
  to prefer - preferred
• The ending -y, preceded by a consonant, is replaced by -i when the ending is added.
  to fly - flied
• In British English, the ending -l doubles when the ending is added:
  to compel - compelled

Note: there is no such doubling in the American version.

How many regular verbs in English, the most used

As noted above, regular English verbs are the most numerous segment of the verb group and it is almost impossible to accurately count their number (including this is due to different approaches to counting: some sources consider, for example, behave and misbehave as one word, and other sources as two, so the data can be very different)

But most linguists agree that for comfortable everyday communication it is desirable to know about 200 irregular verbs, and at least three times as many correct ones. There are various frequency dictionaries, where words are ranked according to their frequency of use, as well as lists of the most used words to memorize. It is recommended for beginners to start with lighter lists, consisting of 100-250 words, and for professionals, take thousand-words into the study.

Here you will find the English language with transcriptions and translations that are most requested

Often confused

One of the biggest difficulties and most common mistakes that students face is that they often mistake irregular verbs in English for correct and vice versa.

Words often cause confusion turn, return, invite, wait, walk, dance, jump, play, last, want, try, die, cry, wash, help, need, travel, live, stay, visit, decide, study, look, call, arrive, clean, ask, answer, as well as work and cook. It is necessary to remember that they are all correct and form the past tense according to the standard rule

Games and exercises

As you know, any information is best assimilated if it is presented in an interactive form. Therefore, in order to quickly and easily learn regular verbs, use bright flashcards that will help you remember new words and give you the opportunity to test yourself

Take advantage of the WordSearch mindfulness game. Find the specified words in the past form:

Carry, copy, dance, enjoy, laugh, live
Love, plan, play, rob, smile, stay
Stop, travel, try, visit, watch, work

Perform to consolidate the material covered

As you can see, Regular Verbs, although they are quite an extensive topic for study, but their main advantage is that they strictly obey the grammatical rules and therefore it is much easier to learn and use them in speech. A lot of practice and persistence, and soon their application will not present any difficulties for you.

Greetings to all lovers of English and grammar in particular :-P. An interesting and useful selection awaits you again today. Someone might think that irregular, modal and phrasal verbs important for correct speech are all there is to know. You are deeply mistaken if you think that learning regular verbs is a useless business, since everyone knows a simple mechanism when [-ed]... English Regular Verbs In fact, regular verbs are the same as irregular and any other. They display a noun. If you have a noun Cook then you also have a verb to cookie... Just like when there was a common word "google", which was used to mean "search engine", but today the English language gave us "to google", which has come to mean "search in a google search engine".

Thus, studying regular English verbs, you learn this unit, and the noun, and the grammar of the formation of the past tense - three in one. Any English language courses include the study of these words in their program. Therefore, having studied the difficult irregular, modal, phrasal, you should not ignore the usual regular verbs. These words are an important part of expressing emotions and feelings and building sentences.

Formation of regular verbs

Everyone knows that regular verbs are formed by adding to the second participle and the past form of the ending [-ed]: Paint - painted - paint b, however, following this rule, it is necessary to take into account several important nuances:

• If the word ends with "e", then we do not duplicate it and add only the ending [-d]: Like - liked - like
• If the lexeme ends in a voiceless or hissing consonant, then the ending [-ed] is pronounced as "t": Polish - polished - ["pɒlɪʃt] - polish, S top - stopped - - stop... Please note that when forming Past Simple in monosyllabic verbs, the last consonant is doubled
• In the case when the unit ends in a voiced consonant or vowel, the familiar [-ed] picks up the sounding "d": Destroy - destroyed - - destroy. By the way, when a lexeme ends in "y", and there is a consonant letter in front of it, then when [-ed] is added, the sound "y" is reduced and an "i" appears in its place: Study - studied - ["stʌdɪd] - study. If there is a vowel before "y", then no additional changes occur
• If the word ends with "d" or "t", then [-ed] is pronounced like "id": Pretend - pretended - to pretend, Start - Started - - to start, to start

Regular English verbs do not cause any particular difficulties, since the scheme of their formation is quite simple and transparent.

Table of 50 regular English verbs

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