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It is impossible to avoid irregular and regular verbs if you speak or write in English. Moreover, such verbs can reveal whether the speaker or writer is a native or not. The correct usage of irregular verbs also shows an educational level of a person. The English language contains a large number of irregular verbs. In fact, most frequently used verbs are all irregular. Learning these verbs, it will make a huge difference to your communication skills in English.

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A regular verb is a verb that follows a predictable pattern when switching between tenses. In English, you can usually form the past tense of a regular verb simply by adding the suffix “-ed” or “-d” to the end of the verb. This applies to both the simple past tense and the past participle.

Regular verbs are an important part of language, and luckily, they’re relatively easy to learn.

There are thousands of regular verbs in English! Each of them behaves the same way

you add “-ed” or “-d” to the end of the verb.

A participle is a non-finite verb that can also be used as an adjective.

For example:

·        He looked at his burned finger.

·        He has burned his finger.

In the first sentence, the word “burned” is being used as an adjective. In the second, it is used as the past participle.

The past participle of a verb is always used with the verb “to have” (“He has burned his finger”). It is most often used to form the past perfect tense, to describe an action that has already been completed.

Here are some more examples of past participle regular verbs:

·        I have completed my homework.

·        We had talked about it.

·        They had played in the garden.

The great thing about regular verbs is that they don’t change their form at all between the simple past tense and the past participle. You still form them simply by adding “-ed” or “-d” to the end of the regular verb.

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Irregular verbs are verbs that do not follow the normal patterns for tense and past participle.

Irregular verbs are one of the hardest parts of the modern English language because they’re all a little different. Since there’s no formula, English speakers have no choice but to memorize each one, along with their special verb forms.

Irregular verbs do not follow the usual rules of grammar for the tense and past participle. Irregular verbs have their own unique tense forms and past participle. For irregular verbs, you have to change the inside vowel of a verb in most cases. For example, 'swim' changes to 'swam' and 'swum

Even if a verb is irregular, the present participle is still formed by adding -ing to the end of the base—no exceptions there are no irregular present participles in the English language. Sometimes you may have to tweak the spelling a little, but the ending will always be -ing.

Irregular Past Tense and Past Participles

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The irregular past tense and past participle forms.

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The irregular past tense and past participle forms.

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·        They all have one important characteristic in common: they almost never end in -ed. Some examples are at e, fough t, swa m, and give n.

·        It's very common for a vowel (or pair of vowels) to be different from the base form. Beg a n (base form, beg i n) and fr o ze (base form, fr ee ze) are a two good examples.

·        Most irregular verbs follow a specific pattern. You'll learn more about this concept later in this lesson.

Past Tense

With the irregular past tense, it is common for a vowel in the middle of the verb to change instead of the verb's ending. The verb dr i ve, for example, changes to dr o ve in the past tense.

Other verbs require you to change a vowel and add a new ending. Eat, for example, turns into a t e in the past tense.

One of the most common irregular past tense endings is -t (sweep → swep t). Sometimes you'll add -d (sell → sol d) or -ght (catch → cau ght) instead.

Often, when the base ends in -ck, -e, -g, -ght, or -n, the past tense will keep that final letter or set of letters.

sti ck → stu ck
drive → drov e
ring → ran g
fight → fou ght
run → ra n

Past Participles

irregular past participles can be formed by changing a vowel, adding a new ending, or doing both. However, the vowel or ending is often (but not always) different from the past tense form. For example, many irregular past participles require you to add an -en, -n, or -ne ending (drive → drive n).

Many irregular past participles end in -en, but, similarly to the past tense, they can also end in -t, -ck, -d, -e, -g, or -ght.

Pay special attention to the vowel changes and different endings.

Present Tense: Irregular Third Person Singular

Verbs that are irregular in the present tense are almost always irregular only in the third person singular form (he, she, it). There are very few verbs that fall into this category; they are to have, to do, and to go.

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Verbs in English come in three main categories: the affirmative, the negative, and the interrogative.

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Verbs in English come in three main categories: the affirmative, the negative, and the interrogative.

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The affirmative= asserting that something is true or valid. The negative= a reply denying something. The interrogative= asking a question.

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What Is an Affirmative Sentence? – Meaning and Definition

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What Is an Affirmative Sentence? – Meaning and Definition

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It is a sentence structure that affirms a proposition, a day-to-day action, an idea, a request or a random thought. In simpler terms, it can be said that an affirmative sentence is a positive statement, an affirmative clause is positive and does not contain a negative word.”

How to Make an Affirmative Sentence?

Forming an affirmative sentence is a simple task. All that you need to do is to see to it that the statement is positive. An affirmative sentence can be a declarative or assertive sentence, and it can be either a simple, complex or compound sentence as long as it is positive.

·        Tokyo is the capital of Japan.

·        My phone has two displays.

·        The teacher gave us our marksheets

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The sentence structure for a negative verb conjugation is: Subject + auxiliary verb + "not" + main verb + object[s]. The combination of "not" and an auxiliary verb is often contracted in English. For example: do not = don't, will not = won't, and has not = hasn't.

A negative sentence is a sentence that states that something is false. In English, we create negative sentences by adding the word 'not' after the auxiliary, or helping, verb. An example of an auxiliary verb is the helping verb 'be.

1.     I am not going to the grocery store today./I'm not going to the grocery store today.

2.     It is not cold outside today. /It isn't cold outside today.

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How are interrogative sentences structured?

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How are interrogative sentences structured?

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Unlike in other sentences, in interrogative sentences the auxiliary verb comes first, then the subject, and last the main verb. If there's a question word like who or what, that usually goes at the beginning, before the auxiliary verb.

The basic function of an interrogative sentence is to ask a direct question. It asks us something or requests information (as opposed to a statement which tells us something or gives information). Interrogative sentences require an answer. Look at these examples:

·        Is snow white? (answer → Yes.)

·        Why did John arrive late? (answer → Because the traffic was bad.)

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What contribution did this activity make to your professional and personal life? What did you learn?

This task currently helps me a lot in my work since I have many English-speaking clients, so learning the regular and irregular verbs in the perfect tenses and the subject verb agreement helps my ideas to be understood by clients. Now I can put into practice the rules I learned and review them day by day to improve my English. In addition, I also learned a lot about how to form the different forms of affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences. Now it is up to me to put into practice every day  what I have learned so I don't forget these rules.

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https://byjus.com/english/affirmative-sentence/

sentence-definition-structure-examples.html

https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/sentence/type-interrogative.php

https://www.eslbuzz.com/interrogative-pronouns/

https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-negative-

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The form of the verb to be is am (contracted to 'm), is ('s), and are ('re) in the present tense. As with any verb, the present tense of the verb to be can take several forms: the indicative or simple present, the present perfect, and the present continuous.

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These are some of the ways we use the verb ‘to be’ in sentences and questions in the present tense.

‘I am happy.’

‘You’re late!’

‘She’s brilliant.’

‘Are they all here?’

If we want to use ‘to be’ in its negative form, we add ‘not’ (or the abbreviation ‘-n’t’) to the verb, like this:

‘I’m not hungry.’

‘He isn’t here at the moment.’

‘They aren’t ready.’

We can also use the verb ‘to be’ in its infinitive form, usually when we’re giving advice or commands, such as ‘be good’, ‘be kind’ or ‘be yourself’. Additionally, we use the infinitive form when the verb ‘to be’ is accompanied by a modal verb (‘We should be there’).

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Past simple indicates that something happened at a specific time in the past, as in:

"Her house was built in 1987."

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If we want to talk about something that’s already happened, we use the past tense form of the verb:

‘I was on holiday.’

‘Weren’t you at the party?’

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Note that the past singular requires was for the first and third person, while were is used with a second-person pronoun. All forms use were for the plural tenses.

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Verbs “To Be” in the Present and Past tenses

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Verbs “To Be” in the Present and Past tenses

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Verb Be: Past and Present Tense - Personal Pronouns with Am, Is, Are / Was, Were

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Verbs “To Be” in the Present and Past tenses

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Verbs “To Be” in the Present and Past tenses

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Verb Be: Past and Present Tense - Personal Pronouns with Am, Is, Are / Was, Were

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Verbs tell us the time that an action in a sentence happened. The time that a verb shows is called tense. The most common tenses in the English Language are past tense, present tense and future tense.

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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We usually make the past tense by adding "d" or "ed" to the verb root word. For example; Hannah talked to her friend.

Some verbs have irregular past tenses. For example; Hannah told him about her holiday. We do not add "d" or "ed" to the irregular past tense verb but change the spelling. Tell becomes told not told.

We also make the past tense by using the verb "to be" and add "ing" word.

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Use the simple past tense to describe a completed action that took place at a specific point in the past (e.g., last year, 1 hour ago, last Sunday).

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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The Simple Present Verb Tense is a timeless truth, something that is happening all the time, actions that we do all the time, The present tense verbs tells about activities that we do again and again.

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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We use the Present Progressive Verb Tense to talk about actions that are in progress right now at the moment of speaking. The verb, "To Be" plus the "ing" of the verb make the present progressive verb tense.

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Uses of the verbs in the Present and Past tenses in simple statements

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Use the simple present to describe a general truth or a habitual action. This tense indicates that the statement is generally true in the past, present, and future.

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Well, I can say that this research on the subject of verbs and their tenses, as well as their applications in simple sentences, has left me quite steeped in grammar and the way in which verbs are modified or conjugated so that sentences have a logical sense according to the grammatical tenses in which we want to express ourselves. On a personal level and as students of the English language, we must take the importance of verbs and their grammatical tenses as the grammatical basis of the language we want to master as professionals, which we want to speak and understand without problems. We must take into account the possible modifications to both regular and irregular verbs in order not to make grammatical mistakes and generate misunderstandings or a wrong message to the other person.

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Verbs play a crucial role in expressing actions or states of being in different tenses. The present and past tenses are two fundamental verb tenses used to convey actions or conditions at different points in time. Understanding and using these tenses correctly is essential for effective communication in English. It allows speakers and writers to convey time and the relationship between actions or events clearly and accurately.

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