Principal Parts of Regular Verbs

Principal Parts of Regular Verbs

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(verb tenses)

Present, Past, and Future Tenses

• The PRESENT tense refers to an action that is happening now.

• The PAST tense refers to an action that already happened and is already over.

• The FUTURE tense refers to an action that has not happened yet.

PRESENT TENSE

Usually, if the noun is SINGULAR, the verb ends in "s":

The dog barks.

If the noun is PLURAL, the verb does not end in "s":

The dogs bark.

PAST TENSE

To turn a REGULAR verb into its past tense, add -ed at the end.

Sometimes, you will need to drop the final e, or change y to i, or double a consonant. Watch out!

drop --> dropped

carry --> carried

walk --> walked

cope --> coped

FUTURE TENSE

To form a verb's future tense, add "will" or "shall" to the ORIGINAL verb.

will go / shall go

will talk / shall talk

will think / shall think

Multiple Choice

Which of the following forms of the verb is in the PRESENT tense?

• flew

• fly

• will fly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following forms of the verb is in the PAST tense?

• will eat

• eats

• ate

Multiple Choice

Which of the following forms of the verb is in the FUTURE tense?

• will walk

• walked

• walk

PRESENT AND PAST PARTICIPLE OF REGULAR VERBS

To form the participles of the verbs, use HELPING VERBS.

is

am

are

has

have

had

PRESENT PARTICIPLE

Use is/am/are and add -ing to the verb.

I am eating.

He is working.

She is thinking.

They are cooperating.

PAST PARTICIPLE

Use has/have/had with the past tense of the verb.

I have walked.

The cat has purred.

They had caught a fish.