Irregular verbs

Grammar 7.1.1a

Spelling: Irregular Plurals

Nouns are often made plural by adding –s or –es.

Singular Word

Irregular Plural

child

children

foot

feet

woman

women

goose

geese

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Grammar 7.1.1b

Spelling: Irregular Plurals

Some nouns do not change between the singular and plural forms.

Singular Word

Irregular Plural

fish

fish

sheep

sheep

deer

deer

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Grammar 7.1.1c

Spelling: Irregular Plurals

Determine the plural form of singular nouns below.

1 woman

women, womans

2 mouse

mouses, mice

3 kitten

kittens, kiteens

4 knife

knifes, knives

5 garden

gardens, gardeens

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Multiple Choice

woman

• women

• womans

Multiple Choice

mouse

• mouses

• mice

Multiple Choice

Kitten

• kittens

• kiteens

Multiple Choice

knife

• knifes

• knives

Multiple Choice

garden

• gardens

• gardeens

Grammar 7.1.2a

Spelling: Irregular Verbs

Irregular verbs do not use the -d,-ed, or –ied endings to show past action.

Irregular verbs have a different spelling to show past action, and they have another
spelling when used with has, have, or had.

Present

Past

With Verbs has, have, had

go

went

has gone

get

got

have gotten

come

came

had come

build

built

has built

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Grammar 7.1.2b

Spelling: Irregular Verbs

Choose the proper form of the verb in parentheses. Note if the verb has, have, or
had is used in the sentence.

1 The trees (grow, grew) taller last spring.

2 The cat already (ate, eat) dinner.

3 She (get, got) exactly what she wanted for her birthday.

4 I (took, taken) the green towel to the pool.

5 Misha had already (chose, chosen) the blue towel.

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Multiple Choice

The trees (grow, grew) taller last spring

• grow

• grew

Multiple Choice

The cat already (ate, eat) dinner.

• ate

• eat

Multiple Choice

She (get, got) exactly what she wanted for her birthday.

• get

• got

Multiple Choice

I (took, taken) the green towel to the pool.

• took

• taken

Multiple Choice

Misha had already (chose, chosen) the blue towel.

• chose

• chosen

Grammar 7.1.3a

Spelling: High-Frequency Words

Some words are used over and over again but they don’t follow typical spelling
patterns. Some are even spelled differently than they sound. Use a dictionary to
learn the spellings.

afraid

thought

believe

clothes

does

buy

friend

laugh

whole

through

once

wear

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Grammar 7.1.3b

Spelling: High-Frequency Words

Choose the proper spelling of the word in parentheses. Remember that some
words do not follow typical spelling patterns.

1 I (believe, beleave) that I will do well if I study for the test.

2 The (weather, wether) report says sunshine tomorrow.

3 I don’t want to cause any (truble, trouble).

4 That puzzle was nearly (imposible, impossible).

5 She packed (everything, everithing) except her toothbrush!

6 The two flowers are very (diferent, different).

7 I’d like (another, anothir) slice of cake, please.

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Multiple Choice

I (believe, beleave) that I will do well if I study for the test.

• believe

• beleave

Multiple Choice

The (weather, wether) report says sunshine tomorrow.

• weather

• wether

Multiple Choice

I don’t want to cause any (truble, trouble).

• truble

• trouble

Multiple Choice

That puzzle was nearly (imposible, impossible).

• imposible

• impossible

Multiple Choice

She packed (everything, everithing) except her toothbrush!

• everything

• everithing

Spelling 7.1.4a

Review Spelling

Irregular plural nouns are nouns that do not use –s or –es in the plural form.

Some nouns do not change between the singular and plural forms.

Irregular verbs don’t use –d, -ed, or -ied to show past action, and they have
another spelling when used with has, have, or had.

Irregular Plural Nouns

Irregular Verbs

man/men

bring/brought

means/means

freeze/froze

mouse/mice

give/gave

tooth/teeth

ride/rode

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Grammar 7.1.4b

Review Spelling

Some words do not follow spelling patterns. These words need to be learned in
order to spell them correctly.

again

certain

during

everywhere

field

city

pull

move

kind

write

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Grammar 7.1.5

Connect to Writing: Using
Correct Spelling

When editing your writing, it’s important to check that words are spelled correctly.

Irregular plural nouns do not use –s or –es.

foot/feet

Some irregular plural nouns do not change.

sheep/sheep

Irregular verbs don’t use –d, -ed, or -ied.

wear/wore
choose/chose

Irregular verbs with has, have, or had change.

has worn
had chosen
have drawn

Learn high-frequency word spellings.

trouble
years

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