1. Regular Verbs
Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb.
For examples:
- arrange - arranged - arranged
- arrive - arrived - arrived
- ask - asked - asked
- attack - attacked - attacked
- bake - baked - baked
- behave - behaved - behaved
- believe - believed - believed
- belong - belonged - belonged
- blame - blamed - blamed
- borrow - borrowed - borrowed
- bother - bothered - bothered
- call - called - called
- cancel - canceled - canceled
- roll - rolled - rolled
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2. Irregular Verbs
There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms.
For examples:
- be - was/ were - been
- bear - bore - born (e)
- beat - beat - beaten
- become - became - become
- burst - burst - burst
- buy - bought - bought
- catch – caught - caught
- choose - chose - chosen
- cling - clung - clung
- come - came - come
- cost - cost - cost
- creep - crept - crept
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