Verbs Regular and Irregular

Verbs Regular and Irregular.

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Concept

Do you remember that in simple present tense, it is necessary to conjugate the verbs for pronouns: he, she and it?Well, in simple past tense verbs are classified into regular and irregular.

Spelling of Regular verbs

We form the past simple of most regular verbs by adding -ed to the main verb. 

wash – washed

kiss – kissed

play - played

For verbs ending in -e, we add –d.
- love – loved
- like - liked

For verbs ending in a consonant + y, we drop the –y and add –ied .
- cry – cried
- carry – carried

For verbs ending in a stressed vowel between two consonants, we double the last consonant and add -ed.
- stop – stopped
- fit – fitted

Spelling of Irregular verbs

For irregular verbs their spelling in the simple past tense is totally different, check these examples:

Examples:

+ think - thought
+ see - saw
+ write - wrote 
+ say - said
+ draw - drew
+ do - did 

As you could notice in this case their ending is different and there is no rule, for this reason you need to learn them by heart. In this link you can find more examples: irregular verbs.