Irregular Verbs

Yesterday's blog post dealt with regular verbs. Today, we're going to switch gears and go over irregular verbs.

Recall that regular verbs are formed by just taking the present tense verb and adding "-ed" to the end. An example of that would be the verb "yell." The past tense, because it's a regular verb, would be "yelled."

An irregular verb, however, does not follow that "nice" rule about adding "-ed" to the end for the past tense. Irregular verbs have a completely different word used.

Let's look at some examples.

1.)
Present tense: run
Past tense: ran

2.)
Present tense: shake
Past tense: shook

3.)
Present tense: shine
Past tense: shone

For a list of some irregular verbs, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/eslirrverb.html and http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/verbs.htm.

Check out those sites, pick 1 irregular verb, come back here, and post the following things: the present tense form, the irregular past tense form, and then use that past tense form in a correctly written sentence.

I'll start!

Present tense: awake
Past tense: awoke
Sentence: Last week, I awoke to the sound of a honking horn.

Now you try!