Irregular Verbs

Friends, in today's post we shall discuss about Irregular Verbs.

What are these Irregular Verbs ?

Before going into the details, first lets discuss What are the Regular Verbs ? 

Well, we can call the verbs which contain the ed at the end of the Simple Past and Past Participle forms as the Regular Verbs. So the format of the regular verbs is Base Verb + ed

Now lets have a look at some Examples of the regular verbs :

Infinitive	Simple past	Past participle
play	played	played
visit	visited	visited
work	worked	worked

Ok, you can take plenty of examples like this for Regular verbs. Now lets have a look at the Irregular Verbs. In contrast to the Regular verbs, irregular verbs are those verbs for which the above pattern of conjugation don't apply.

So, you cant predict the forms of the Iregular verbs, so you should learn them by heart. Here are some techniques to make them remember. 

• Use them in appropriate contexts (in your writing or in your conversation)
• Just write down examples in your exercise book.
• Always keep a list of irregular verbs at your disposal. (Keep in mind, that most language books include a section at the end for irregular verbs.)

 Why to put this much stress on Irregular words? because these are very important in the sentence correction part of the competitive exams (especially Bank Exams ofcourse). 

Now Lets have a look at some Irregular Verbs :

Infinitive	Simple Past Tense	Past Participle
awake	awoke	awoken
be	was, were	been
bear	bore	born
beat	beat	beat
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bend	bent	bent
beset	beset	beset
bet	bet	bet
bid	bid/bade	bid/bidden
bind	bound	bound
bite	bit	bitten
bleed	bled	bled
blow	blew	blown
break	broke	broken
breed	bred	bred
bring	brought	brought
broadcast	broadcast	broadcast
build	built	built
burn	burned/burnt	burned/burnt
burst	burst	burst
buy	bought	bought
cast	cast	cast
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
cling	clung	clung
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
creep	crept	crept
cut	cut	cut
deal	dealt	dealt
dig	dug	dug
dive	dived/dove	dived
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
dream	dreamed/dreamt	dreamed/dreamt
drive	drove	driven
drink	drank	drunk
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fit	fit	fit
flee	fled	fled
fling	flung	flung
fly	flew	flown
forbid	forbade	forbidden
forget	forgot	forgotten
forego (forgo)	forewent	foregone
forgive	forgave	forgiven
forsake	forsook	forsaken
freeze	froze	frozen
get	got	gotten
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grind	ground	ground
grow	grew	grown
hang	hung	hung
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
hurt	hurt	hurt
keep	kept	kept
kneel	knelt	knelt
knit	knit	knit
know	knew	know
lay	laid	laid
lead	led	led
leap	leaped/leapt	leaped/leapt
learn	learned/learnt	learned/learnt
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lie	lay	lain
light	lighted/lit	lighted
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
misspell	misspelled/misspelt	misspelled/misspelt
mistake	mistook	mistaken
mow	mowed	mowed/mown
overcome	overcame	overcome
overdo	overdid	overdone
overtake	overtook	overtaken
overthrow	overthrew	overthrown
pay	paid	paid

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