Verbs (Regular and Irregular)

VERBS

A verb is a word used in sentences that serves to express existence, status, action or passion of the subject. An English verb can be regular or irregular. Regular verbs form their past and past participle forms by adding –ed.

REGULAR VERBS

Many English verbs are regular, which means that they form their different tenses according to an established pattern.

Past tense formation

Forming the past simple tense of regular verbs is mostly straightforward, and you use the same form for the first, second, and third persons, singular and plural: 

• If the basic form of the verb ends in a consonant or a vowel other than e, add the letters -ed to the end (e.g. seem/seemed, laugh/laughed, look/looked).
• For verbs that end in -e, add -d (e.g. love/loved, recede/receded, hope/hoped).
• If the verb ends in a consonant plus -y, change the y to an i before adding -ed (e.g. hurry/hurried, clarify/clarified). But if the verb ends in a vowel plus -y, just add -ed (e.g. play/played, enjoy/enjoyed).

IRREGULAR VERBS

There are many irregular verbs that don’t follow the normal rules. Here are the forms of some of the most common irregular verbs:

SOMES EXERCISES:

• https://elt.oup.com/student/project/level2/unit3/grammar/exercise4?cc=cz&selLanguage=bg
• https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/verbs.htm

Bibliographical source

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/grammar/regular-and-irregular-verbs