Irregular and Regular Verbs

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What is a verb?

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A verb is a word that describes an action, state, or occurrence, like 'run', 'is', or 'happen'.

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What is a regular verb?

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A regular verb is a verb that forms its past tense by adding '-ed' to the base form, like 'play' becomes 'played'.

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What is an irregular verb?

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An irregular verb is a verb that does not follow the regular pattern of adding '-ed' for its past tense, like 'go' becomes 'went'.

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What is the past tense of 'walk'?

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The past tense of 'walk' is 'walked'.

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What is the past tense of 'eat'?

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The past tense of 'eat' is 'ate'.

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How do you change 'play' to past tense?

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You add '-ed' to make it 'played'.

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What is the present tense of 'picked'?

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The present tense of 'picked' is 'pick'.

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What is the past tense of 'freeze'?

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The past tense of 'freeze' is 'froze'.

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True or False: All verbs can be changed to past tense by adding '-ed'.

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False. Some verbs are irregular and do not follow this rule.

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What is the present tense of 'wrote'?

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The present tense of 'wrote' is 'write'.