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With Regular Verbs the Continuous always end in -ing to form Continuous tense.
With Regular Verbs the Past Simple and Past Participle always end in -ed to form Past Simple and Past Participle tenses.
With Regular Verbs the Continuous also end in -ing to form Continuous tense.
However, the Continuous, Past and Participle tenses of Irregular Verbs are different.
Example: Go, Going, Went, Gone
| Regular Verb | Irregular Verbs |
| work, working, worked read, reading, read, read play, playing, played, played |
sing, singing, sang, sung cut, cutting, cut, cut do, doing, did, done |
Irregular verbs are an important feature of English.
The most famous English verb of all, the verb "to be", is irregular:
Be, Being, Was, Were, Been
Some common irregular verbs.
| Present Simple | Past Simple | Past Participle |
| Awake | Awoke | Awaken |
| Be | Was, Were | Been |
| Beat | Beat | Beaten |
| Become | Became | Become |
| Begin | Began | Begun |
| Bend | Bent | Bent |
| Bet | Bet | Bet |
| Bid | Bid | Bid |
| Bite | Bit | Bitten |
| Blow | Blew | Blown |
| Break | Broke | Broken |
| Bring | Brought | Brought |
| Broadcast | Broadcast | Broadcast |
| Build | Built | Built |
| Burn | Burnt or Burned | Burnt or Burned |
| Buy | Bought | Bought |
| Catch | Caught | Caught |
| Choose | Chose | Chosen |
| Come | Came | Come |
| Cost | Cost | Cost |
| Cut | Cut | Cut |
| Dig | Dug | Dug |
| Do | Did | Done |
| Do | Did | Done |
| Draw | Drew | Drawn |
| Dream | Dreamt or Dreamed | Dreamt or Dreamed |
| Drive | Drove | Driven |
| Drink | Drank | Drunk |
| Eat | Ate | Eaten |
| Fall | Fell | Fallen |
| Feel | Felt | Felt |
| Fight | Fought | Fought |
| Find | Found | Found |
| Fly | Flew | Flown |
| Forget | Forgot | Forgotten |
| Forgive | Forgave | Forgiven |
| Freeze | Froze | Frozen |
| Get | Got | Gotten |
| Give | Gave | Given |
| Go | Went | Gone |
| Grow | Grew | Grown |
| Hang | Hung | Hung |
| Have | Had | Had |
| Hear | Heard | Heard |
| Hide | Hid | Hidden |
| Hit | Hit | Hit |
| Hold | Held | Held |
| Hurt | Hurt | Hurt |
| Keep | Kept | Kept |
| Know | Knew | Known |
| Lay | Laid | Laid |
| Lead | Led | Led |
| Learn | Learnt or Learned | Learnt or Learned |
| Leave | Left | Left |
| Lend | Lent | Lent |
| Let | Let | Let |
| Lie | Lay | Lain |
| Lose | Lost | Lost |
| Make | Made | Made |
| Mean | Meant | Meant |
| Meet | Met | Met |
| Pay | Paid | Paid |
| Put | Put | Put |
| Read | Read | Read |
| Ride | Rode | Ridden |
| Ring | Rang | Rung |
| Rise | Rose | Risen |
| Run | Ran | Run |
| Say | Said | Said |
| See | Saw | Seen |
| Sell | Sold | Sold |
| Send | Sent | Sent |
| Show | Showed | Shown or Showed |
| Shut | Shut | Shut |
| Sing | Sang | Sung |
| Sit | Sat | Sat |
| Sleep | Slept | Slept |
| Speak | Spoke | Spoken |
| Spend | Spent | Spent |
| Stand | Stood | Stood |
| Swim | Swam | Swum |
| Take | Took | Taken |
| Teach | Taught | Taught |
| Tear | Tore | Torn |
| Tell | Told | Told |
| Think | Thought | Thought |
| Throw | Threw | Thrown |
| Understand | Understood | Understood |
| Wake | Woke | Woken |
| Wear | Wore | Worn |
| Win | Won | Won |
| Write | Wrote | Written |
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