Regular and Irregular Verbs
Regular and Irregular Verbs
Regular and Irregular Verbs
To form the past and perfect tense and to form passive voice, add --ed to a regular verb:
Present Past
remember remembered
stew stewed
walk walked
frown frowned
like liked (if verb ends in e, only add d)
drop dropped (c-v-c rule: double final consonant before adding ed)
carry carried (if verb ends in y and is preceded by a consonant, drop the y and
insert ied)
Many verbs are irregular; the past and perfect tenses are not controlled by strict patterns:
Irregular Verbs