Parts of speech #1.1: VERBS

Parts of speech #1.1: Regular and irregular verbs

One of the most useful parts of speech among the other eight.

It's all about adding some "actions" to your phrases, so that they make sense! Let's get started!

What does "parts of speech" mean?

• It's a classification that determines how each word functions grammatically, as well as their meaning.

• Some words can act as different parts of speech, depending on the context!

• Verb - Noun - Adjective - Adverb - Pronoun - Preposition - Conjunction - Interjection.

Open Ended

Do you know what is a verb? Type down whatever comes to mind and then think of some verb examples.

Multiple Select

Which of the following words are verbs?

• Play

• Do

• Look

• See

• Create

IÉ IÉ! GOTCHA!

all the previous terms express some kind of action, thus, they are verbs!

Now let's take a quick note about what verbs really are, shall we?

Verbs:

• They are a part of speech that describe an action, a state or an occurence.

• It can be either a physical action, a mental action or a state of being.

• There are regular and irregular verbs!

• They vary depending on the verb tense.

Multiple Choice

All right. Let's give it another shot. Mark the option containing a verb.

• Crate

• Loot

• plain

• Take

• Plate

Regular verbs (rules):

• 1 - they create the past simple and past participle form of the verbs by adding -ed.

• 2 - If it ends in: consonant + -y, we change the -y to -i and add -ed.

• 3 - If it ends in -e, we simply add -d

FIRST CASE (RULE N° 1)

SECOND CASE (RULE N° 2)

THIRD CASE (RULE N° 3)

Multiple Choice

Mark the option containing the correct conjugation of the regular verbs.

• Hate - hatred; call - called; love - loved.

• Arrive - arrived; marry - marryd; play - played.

• Wait - waited; study - studied; like - liked.

Irregular verbs (groups):

• 1 - Verbs which have the same base form, past simple and past participle.

• 2 - Verbs which have the same past simple and past participle.

• 3 - Verbs which have the same base form and past participle.

• 4 - Verbs which have a different base form, past simple and past participle.

Multiple Choice

Mark the option containing the correct conjugation of the irregular verbs.

• Cost - costed - cost.

• Feel - feeled - felt.

• Keep - kept - kept.

• Go - gone - went.

Multiple Choice

Mark the option containing the correct simple past form of the verbs.

• Bought - marryed - liked - looked.

• Buyed - flied - taked - hated.

• Shown - taken - seen - mistaken.

• Saw - played - moved - took.

Open Ended

Great! Now, type down five regular verbs and five irregular verbs, each one next to their proper simple past form.

Open Ended

As for the "gran finale", here's one last challenge: type down four sentences in the simple past tense, two with a regular verb and two with an irregular verb.

Congratulations to all of us! We've reached the end of this class! 🤘

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